The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice - The Rt. Honourable Mr. Justice Michael de la Bastide, Honourable Justices of the Court, Honourable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and other Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Honourable Ministers, Eminent Guests, Your Excelle...

  Your Excellency President Max Richards and Mrs. Richards Your Excellencies, Members of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Justice Michael de la Bastide, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and Mrs. de la Bastide Judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice ...

Background Today we celebrate the birth of a new Caribbean institution - the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The period of gestation has been protracted - some thirty-five years, in fact, and the birth has not been without complications. It was at a meeting in Jamaica in March 1970, that the Organ...

Your Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Dr. Jean Ramjohn Richards; Your Excellency President Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan, President of the Republic of Suriname and Chairman of CARICOM; Your Excellency, President Bharrat Jagdeo, President...

Permit me to begin by congratulating the truly impressive gathering of legal luminaries behind me on this stage today who, from the introductions and accomplishments we heard earlier, can certainly stand head to head with any team of jurists anywhere in the world. It is with great pride that I sta...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will forge ahead to complete the crafting of rules to engage and govern the Court's proceedings after its grand inauguration on 16 April 2005 in Trinidad and Tobago. At a press conference in the twin-Islan...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The decision by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and its partners: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the German Development Bank (KfW) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for a regional socia...

Salutations: Ladies and Gentlemen: "A New Horizon A Whole New World" is a fitting theme for us as Dominicans and Caribbean people at this time to observe such an occasion. The many changes taking place in both the regional and international sphere provide an ideal opportunity for all of us to chart...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The three-day workshop on Services Statistics convened by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Statistics Programme with funding from the USAID Caribbean Trade and Competitiveness Programme (CTRADECOM) ended in Barbados on Wednesday 13th April with ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Citizens of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be privy to the opening ceremony to mark the inauguration of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Saturday 16 April in Trinidad and Tobago. The event will be broadcast live commencing at 9:00 a.m. on all ...