(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), yesterday challenged the Caribbean Community to ensure greater collaboration with Regional and international institutions in order to build a Region fit for...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington said yesterday, that preparatory work had started for the drafting of a Protocol on Contingent Rights to be accorded to spouses, children and other depend...

Master of Ceremonies, Mr Carlton James Chairman of COHSOD, Mr. Peter Martinez, Minister of Community Development and Transformation, Belize Hon Clement Rohee, Minister of Home Affairs, Guyana Hon Edwin Wolf, Minister of Education and Community Development, Suriname and representative of His Excellen...

Mr. Chairman, H.E. the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Colleagues Representatives from Regional and International Organisations Staff of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community Representatives of the Media, to those of you representin...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Human safety and well-being ‘will worsen as a direct consequence of climate change’ and children are most vulnerable, said UWI lecturer, Dr Leonard Nurse. Addressing a technical session at the Twelfth Special COHSOD on children w...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) will be the Keynote Speaker at the Twelfth Special Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), which has its focus for the second time on Children. Th...

(CARICOM Secretariat Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When the Twelfth Special Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meets in Guyana next week (17-19 March 2008), it will be making a strong case for the establishment of a comprehensive child legislative framework and efficient imple...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Against the background of mounting concerns about the plight and prospects of the Region’s children, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) is devoting its Twelfth Special Conference to iss...

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – “It is with a measure of disappointment that on the eve of my departure from office as Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Negotiations of CARICOM, the FTAA – a central, and probably the most important ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The Nineteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Nassau, The Bahamas, from 7-8 March 2008. The Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister of the Commonweal...