Mr. Chairman, Caricom Secretary General, Colleague Prime Ministers, Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my greatest pleasure at this time to be addressing this, the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. For me it’s...

Mr. Chairman, I recognise very specially the Prime Minister of the Bahamas , the Honourable Hubert Ingraham, who was recently re-elected to his Office after a voluntary five-year respite from his Prime Ministerial perch. He had welcomed me to the Bahamas at my first Heads of Government Conference in...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown , Guyana ) Saturday 30 June 2007: Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, will address the formal opening ceremony of the 28th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of CARICOM Sunday 1 July 2007, in the Courtyard of the ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Congressman Charles Rangel, a leading Member of the United States House of Representatives will be a Special Guest at the 28th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to be held in Barbados from...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Incoming Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, will address the formal opening ceremony of the 28th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of CARICOM on 1 July ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which opens in Barbados on Sunday 1 July, will consider critical issues under the broad context of increased functional cooperation in t...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Scaling up care and treatment and reducing stigma and discrimination are critical to successful HIV and AIDS response in this Region. “Tremendous work has been done, but we have just tipped the problem”. This is the view of the ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Conference on the Caribbean wrapped up at the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Washington DC on Thursday 21 June with The Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis hailing the event as an “overwhelming ...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Come July 1, 2007, several CARICOM Heads of Government will attend the annual CARICOM 10K Road Race; this year, to be hosted in Barbados, under the theme: The Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region. The race will start and e...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Achieving universal access, scaling up testing and counselling and defining a comprehensive care package among other issues, will be the focus of a workshop on 25-27 June 2007 in Saint Lucia. The workshop is convened by the CARICOM-coordina...