(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than fifty delegates will witness a soft launch of the Caribbean Community’s flagship cultural exposition – the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) at the Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development...

Chairman Fellow Ministers Ambassadors Representatives of Regional and International Organizations adies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to address this Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development and to bring you greetings from the Government of Barbados, and part...

Chairman Fellow Ministers Ambassadors Representatives of Regional and International Organizations adies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to address this Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development and to bring you greetings from the Government of Barbados, and part...

We, the Ministers of Agriculture of CARICOM, meeting at the Gran Bahia Principe Hotel, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica on 9 October 2007 on the occasion of a special Symposium on Food and Agriculture Policies and Obesity: Prevention of NCDs in the Caribbean; Recalling the 1996 declaration in The Baham...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Georgetown Guyana) The Sixth Meeting of the Regional Committee of Directors of Youth Affairs opened in Georgetown, Guyana on Monday, 08 October, 2007 with a strong call from youth representatives for CARICOM Governments to heighten youth participation in governance is...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Critical issues relating to youth and culture development in the Caribbean will be the focal point of the Sixteenth Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) set to take place in Georgeto...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson told Caribbean leaders that the region and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), with the European Union (EU), had the potential to be models for putting trade at the service of development an...

It is an honour and a pleasure to be with you today. We are meeting here because the negotiation of the EPA is at a crucial point. We still have to reach an agreement on some key points, not least the market access arrangements that need to be WTO compatible. Peter has spoken on these issues. Obvi...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Mr Louis Michel stressed last evening that it was up to the Caribbean region to arrive at a consensus on the priorities and particularly on the use of the regional funds available ...

It is my pleasure to formally welcome you, my colleague Prime Ministers and Heads of Delegation to this Special Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM). We are here to address critical issues related to the CARIFORUM/EU Eco...