It is with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing on Monday, 4 October 1999, of Frank Rampersad, national of Trinidad and Tobago and committed citizen of the Caribbean Community. An economist by profession, Frank Rampersad, with whom I had the pleasure of working for a short time at the Planning ...

Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region - the Caribbean. Held as it was in Barbados - a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community - the 1994 SID...

Since 1985, Caribbean countries have observed September 30 as Caribbean Youth Day. On those occasions the Region has organised a range of activities and programmes to mark the occasion and to promote the Region's Youth. These activities have involved schools, Youth-related organisations and the gene...

The second session of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) will convene in Grenada on October 14, 1999. The two day-session will bring together parliamentarians from the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 15 Member States as well as the three Associate Member States to discuss ma...

His Excellency, the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo was a welcome surprise guest at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at which members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat remembered their colleague, Ms Silvana Jordan. The President gave his personal reminiscences of his friend Silvana Jordan with ...

Ms Silvana Jordan, Senior Project Officer, Communications Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat died in a vehicular accident on Monday September 20, 1999. Ms Jordan, 36, who joined the Secretariat in June1996, was the first Surinamese national to be employed at the Secretariat follow...

The good relations between Canada and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were once again demonstrated when that country made a presentation of 100,000 Canadian Dollars to assist in the work of the constitutional reform process in CARICOM Member State, Guyana. At a simple ceremony on Thursday, 9 Septe...

It was with deep regret that the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat and the wider Caribbean Community have learnt of the untimely passing of Mr. Charles P. Kennard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Rice Development Board. Mr. Kennard's contribution to the rice industry is well-known ...

After a preliminary meeting on 14 June 1999, the Dialogue resumed on 9 August 1999. The following consolidated agenda was agreed: Agenda Items for Discussion between PPP/Civic and PNC as at 16 August 1999 PNC's List PPP/C's List Victimisation and Discrimination Composition of State Boards,...

The need for international and regional organisation to collaborate on issues of common interest and also build viable networks was this week underscored by the Regional Representation of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Mr Oyebade Ajayi. His remarks came as he addressed judges who were in...