Madam Chair (Dr Lucy Steward, Registrar CXC) Professor Kenneth Hall, Chairman of CXC Professor Compton Bourne, President of the CDB Dr. Stafford Griffith, Pro-Registrar CXC Other Distinguished Guests Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen This evening we celebrate an event of signal importance in...

PREFACE I deem it an honour to have been invited by the CARICOM Secretariat to deliver this the Third Distinguished Lecture Series in commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Caribbean Community. This is, indeed, a singular honour and reflects, I am sure, the substantive role Jamaica has play...

It is indeed my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat and indeed the CARICOM Family. It is moreso our pleasure to be here in Suriname for this Eight meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development which focuses on Human and social issues with special reference ...

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – As part of accelerated preparations for the negotiation of a regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) - with the assistance of the Commonwealth Secretariat - will be convening a series of...

Issues pertaining to culture, youth and sport will be the focus of deliberations of the Eighth Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), from 24-26 April 2003, at the Torarica Hotel in Paramaribo, Suriname. The Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CAR...

At its Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting (in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 14-15 February 2003), the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community “considered the situation developing over Iraq and expressed their profound concern at the escalation of global tensions and ...

  At its Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting (in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 14-15 February 2003), the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community “considered the situation developing over Iraq and expressed their profound concern at the escalation of global tensi...

An appreciation of the history of this region is critical to a fuller understanding of contemporary realities and future challenges. For the Caribbean shares in the great drama of the Americas of which it is an integral part, whereby new societies are shaped, new and delicately tuned sensibilities a...

The Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meets in Montego Bay, Jamaica on the weekend of 5-6 April 2003 to consider the implications to the Community of the war in Iraq. Chairman of Conference, the Hon. Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica will...

Honourable Ministers Ms. Jacqulyn Joseph and other members of the CARICOM Secretariat Permanent Secretaries Representatives of Ministers Representatives of Regional and International Institutions Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen. Since assuming the Chairmanship of the COHSOD in Octo...