Caribbean Charter on Health and Ageing was launched in Guyana today Wednesday 20 October, 1999. The Charter has as its guiding principle a coordinated, systematic approach for ensuring the health and full integration and participation of older persons in Caribbean societies and economies. Developed ...

A Vision for the Community in the 21st Century will be the main focus of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community when it convenes for the Seventh Special Meeting in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago on October 26-27, 1999. It will be an unprecedented fourth Meeting of the Con...

Hon. Indra Chandrapal, Minister of Human Services and Social Security Other Ministers of Government Dr. Bernadette Theodore-Gandhi, PAHO/WHO Representative to Guyana Members of the Diplomatic Corps Delegates Distinguished GuestsLadies and Gentlemen On behalf of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, l...

A range of social issues influencing life in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be addressed when CARICOM Ministers on the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meet in Guyana on the 20th and 21st October, 1999. The Third Meeting of The Council will address matters relating to the...

Representatives at the Second Sitting of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP), which ended in Grenada on Friday, have come out in support of the Caribbean Court of Justice. The two-day session, which was held at the Convention Centre of the Grenada Grand Beach Resort, received...

It is with profound sadness that the Caribbean Community received the news that His Excellency Julius K. Nyerere, former President of Tanzania, had succumbed to his illness on Wednesday, 13 October 1999. Dr. Nyerere, one of Africa's and the Third World's leading statesmen of the post-colonial period...

The Region-wide series of public education workshops which touches on a wide range of issues relating to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will continue in Guyana during this month. The exercises which started in May, 1999, have already been held in Antigua and Bar...

Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are to benefit from a programme aimed at imparting new financial skills which will, among other things, expand investment options for everyone across the Region. Representatives from a cross-section of financial institutions including stock exchange...

WHEREAS Venezuela continues to advance her claim to the Essequibo Region of Guyana, a claim which amounts to no less than five-eighths of Guyana's territory; AND WHEREAS this claim completely disregards the fact that the existing boundary was defined by the unanimous judgment of an international arb...

The Seventh Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) was held at the Headquarters of the Community on 8 October 1999. The Meeting was very positive and reached a number of important conclusions. Held under the Chairmanship of Antigua and Barbuda, the COTED took the ...