The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Mr Edwin Carrington will preside over a plenary session at the Annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean and Latin America 1998 entitled "Europe and the Americas Beyond 2000". The session takes place on Friday December 11, 1998 from 9.00 a.m at the ...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington will lead the CARICOM Secretariat's representation at the official funeral for the Hon. William Demas TC, OCC in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Monday, 7 December 1998. Included in the party is Assistant Secretary-General, Re...

Over the past decade, the continuing increase in the incidence and prevalence of the HIV infection and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) has been the cause of increasing concern to the Caribbean population . The youth of our Region are not only experiencing increasing morbidity but si...

As a mark of respect for the death of former Secretaries-General the Hon. William Demas TC, OCC and Dr Kurleigh King, GCM, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will open Books of Condolence for signing on Wednesday December 2, 1998 at its Headquarters at the Bank of Guyana Building. The boo...

All Jamaica and the Caribbean mourn the passing of Honourable William Demas, O.C.C., on Saturday last in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The late William Demas had already reached the highest echelons of official service in Trinidad and Tobago, when he embarked on the wider mission of the drive ...

It is with a sense of deep loss that the Caribbean Community awoke yesterday to the news that the Hon. William G. Demas, OCC - former Secretary-General of CARICOM - died on Saturday, 28 November. This follows news of the death, some 48 hrs earlier of another former Secretary-General of the Caribbean...

The Caribbean Community has learned with great sadness of the recent death of former Secretary-General of CARICOM, Dr. Kurleigh King of Barbados. Dr. King was Secretary-General of CARICOM from 1979-1983. He assumed the position of Secretary-General at a particularly difficult period in the life of t...

The Fifth Meeting of the CARICOM-Cuba Joint Commission chaired by Mr. Edwin Carrington, the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, and the Honourable Ricardo Cabrisas, Minister of Foreign Trade of Cuba, was held 18-19 November, 1998 in Georgetown, Guyana. The Meeting noted the devastation wre...

Hon. Prime Minister Hon. Michael Shree Chan, Acting Minister of Finance Mr. Eudoxie, Chairman of the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks Distinguished Guests Delegates Members of Diplomatic Corps Ladies and Gentlemen The current global financial crisis which has so far spanned South East Asia,...

The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington, despatched messages of condolence and support to Honduras and Nicaragua last week, on behalf of the Community and the Secretariat, following the passage of Hurricane Mitch through Central America. The Secretary-General...