(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) have embarked on an information and fact finding mission across the Region to harness stakeholders’ views, and recommendations on youth govern...

Dr. The Honourable, Christopher Tufton, Minister of Agriculture of Jamaica Honourable Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana Other Honourable Ministers Senior Officials Representatives of Regional and International Institutions Other Delegates Colleagues of the CARICOM Secretariat Me...

[Salutations] It is customary on occasions like these for us to remind ourselves of the times in which we are gathered. This 27th Special Meeting of COTED is being opened here this morning against the background of a global food crisis, precipitated by spiralling commodity prices worldwide, and char...

A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I wish to acknowledge the lead taken by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to observe 21 May as World Day for Cultural Diversity. This yea...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General His Excellency Edwin Carrington has called on the Community to respect and promote the principles of cultural diversity, and to ensure that the Community is a place built on mutual understandi...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Edwin Carrington has reiterated the need for the Community to create opportunities for the full development of the creativity of its young people, noting that this was central to the developme...

A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting ...

[Salutations] It is customary on occasions like these for us to remind ourselves of the times in which we are gathered. This 27th Special Meeting of COTED is being opened here this morning against the background of a global food crisis, precipitated by spiralling commodity prices worldwide, and char...

Dr. The Honourable, Christopher Tufton, Minister of Agriculture of Jamaica Honourable Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture of Guyana Other Honourable Ministers Senior Officials Representatives of Regional and International Institutions Other Delegates Colleagues of the CARICOM Secretariat Me...