In the Caribbean we see the future rushing at us as the high, to our eyes, impenetrable wall of the tidal wave bearing many developments under beautiful acronyms such as: WTO, FTAA and CSME: the Caribbean Single Market and Economy. We, the leaders of the Caribbean bear the responsibility for not let...

Important measures and areas where implementation is critical to the achievement of the establishment of CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) are expected to feature prominently in the four-day deliberations of the leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), slated for Nassau, the Bahamas, 3-6...

  Thank you for inviting me to participate with you in this important dialogue. It was a pleasure for me to accept the invitation, not only because of the special regard and respect I have for ANSA MACAL, but because of the opportunity this has afforded me to interact with key members in the re...

  Members of Parliament, Excellency, Dean of the CARICOM High Commissioners, Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very pleased to be here representing CARICOM at this celebration of the 28th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguara...

  Twenty years ago on June 18, 1981, the Treaty of Basseterre gave birth to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It's founding fathers fashioned a remarkable admixture of functional cooperation between its Member-States and an embryonic confederal structure which possesses the ...

The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington, said June 19 that, according to a survey made by the Caribbean Epidemiological Centre (CAREC), the Region is the region hardest hit in the world by HIV/AIDS, second only to sub-Saharan Africa. "Nine of the 12 countries...

The Member States of the Caribbean Community have followed with continued interest, the evolution of the political crisis in Haiti. They did so against the background of the Region's continued concern about the political crisis in that country and the impact of that crisis on the Haitian people, who...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington will lead a team of CARICOM Secretariat's officials for a media clinic in The Bahamas on 19 June, 2001 at the Radisson Cable Beach Resort. The four-hour session, which starts at 9 a.m., forms part of activities leading up t...

The Caribbean Management Development Association (CaMDA) held its Sixth Annual International Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas, from 5-8 June 2001. A non-governmental voluntary association of management professionals, the Association seeks to develop the management capacity of the Caribbean Region, ...

Mr Chairman, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Delegates Let me first welcome you to Antigua and Barbuda. It is a great pleasure to see you all here. Remember this is your second Caribbean home. Antigua, after all, is the place where the Caribbean Free Trade Area was conceived at Dickenson Bay in 1965; th...