It is with deep regret that I learnt of the death of the Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Matthew Gairy, KCMG, former Prime Minister of Grenada, last Saturday evening. The late Sir Eric Gairy will long be remembered for the important role he played in raising the political consciousness of the Grenadian people and...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  A special Meeting of the Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community will be held in St John's, Antigua and Barbuda on Tuesday August 26. The meeting called by CARICOM Chairman, Jamaica's Prime Minister the Rt. Hon Perciv...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Heads of Government have asked that an interim report on the most urgent matters affecting Legal Education in the Caribbean be submitted to them in time for consideration at their Ninth Interssesional Meeting in March 1998. This Report will be co...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  The Caribbean Community Secretariat will continue the noble tradition of recognising the contributions made by staff members at a presentation ceremony followed by a reception to mark CARICOM Day at Colgrain House, Camp Street on Friday, July 18, 1997....

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Six countries used the opportunity of the recently concluded XVIII Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community to sign agreements bolstering the Integration Movement. The Bahamas and Montserrat signed Protocol I, the first in ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  CARICOM Secretary General Mr Edwin Carrington has alerted the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that the Community will need support in the process of preparing Haiti for integration into CARICOM. The Secretary General was speaking at the sta...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government have expressed their support for and confidence in the integrity of the judicial process in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Eastern Caribbean. In a statement at the end of the XVIII Meeting of th...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  The Government and people of Montserrat will receive additional assistance from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) following a visit to the island by Prime Ministers the Hon. Dr. Keith Mitchell of Grenada and the Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas of St Kitts/Nevi...

Last week Nutritionists and dieticians agreed that they need to change the way in which they operate, given the focussing of the Caribbean Health Sector on the need to ensure " Value for Money" and the adoption of the generic standards (ISO 9000), established by the International Standards Organisat...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)  The Eighteenth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 30 June-4 July 1997.  Heads of Government in attendance were: Hon. Lester Bird, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign...