Co-Chairmen Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Assistant Secretaries-General and Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen It is with the greatest pleasure that as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I join the honourable Minister of Fore...

Mr Chairman, the Honourable Karl Samuda, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Jamaica Dr the Honourable Henry Jeffrey, Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation of Guyana Other Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Representatives of Regional Bodies Assistant Secretaries-Genera...

Distinguished Delegates, It is my honour to be afforded the opportunity to Chair this the 25th Regular Session of the COTED. I am reassured by the manner in which we worked yesterday to complete the COTED/COHSOD Agenda. I know that our concerted efforts today will result in timely agreement on impor...

On behalf of the people of Jamaica, let me thank you for the opportunity to serve as Co-Chairman at this meeting. I am honoured to co-chair this, the 2nd Joint COTED/COSHOD meeting. I welcome all delegates to this meeting as it has been a long time, 2001, since both CARICOM bodies have met and there...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The major strides in achieving the underlying objectives of the first Joint Meeting of the Councils for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and Human and Social Development (COHSOD) held in September 2001 were not only symbolic but helpe...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Matters relating to Free Movement in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) as well as Culture and Trade in the CSME will be high on the agenda of the Second Joint Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) January 23 is a date of special significance to the people of the Caribbean Community and in particular to the people of Saint Lucia. Two of the Caribbean’s Nobel Laureates, the late Sir Arthur Lewis and Mr Derek Walcott were born on ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) opens in Georgetown on Friday 25 January with a packed agenda that includes recommendations from the technical team which earlier this week considered povert...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Fireworks lit up the Paramaribo sky late on Friday afternoon, 18, January shortly after Dr. Kusha Haraksingh, a national of Trinidad and Tobago was sworn in as Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission. Dr Haraksi...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Fireworks lit up the Paramaribo sky late on Friday afternoon, 18, January shortly after Dr. Kusha Haraksingh, a national of Trinidad and Tobago was sworn in as Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission. Dr Haraksi...