(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean countries are well poised to respond to the challenges in sustaining the HIV response in the Region.

This was the key message of Ms. Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland, Director, Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) who was at the time addressing a session on the sustainability of the Caribbean Region’s HIV response at the XII International AIDS Conference (IAC). The IAC is being held from 22-27 July 2012 in Washington, DC, USA.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) PANCAP’s Caribbean Regional Social Marketing Project (CARISMA) will be rolling out a new media campaign in five English speaking Caribbean countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana and Saint Lucia) on July 25, 2012. The campaign aims to generate more compassion and respect for individuals living with HIV.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) PANCAP’s Caribbean Regional Social Marketing Project (CARISMA) will be rolling out a new media campaign in five English speaking Caribbean countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana and Saint Lucia) on July 25, 2012. The campaign aims to generate more compassion and respect for individuals living with HIV.

​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is indeed my great pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency, Anthony Liverpool, Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Antigua and Barbuda, this morning, applauded Japan for being one of the few countries to date, which have provided their full pledge to Haiti.

Japan, he stated, had pledged and delivered the sum of US$100- million to the Haiti reconstruction programme, after that country was hit by a major earthquake in January 2010.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is indeed my great pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Japan’s Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Yoshimasa Tezuka, has declared that despite its modest size, the Community has significant political leverage when seeking to promote its interests in the international arena and therefore cannot be underestimated.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Senior officials from Japan are to meet with senior officials of the Caribbean Community in their Fifteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation, which opens on Monday, at the Georgetown based CARICOM Secretariat.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Connect to the Americas Summit opened in Panama City on Wednesday with a chorus of calls for the speedy roll-out of secure and affordable and access broadband connectivity and digital inclusion, which gives everyone affordable access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the region of the Americas.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Grenada’s Finance and Planning Minister the Hon Nazim Burke has called for “renewed funding opportunities in Information and Communication Technologies for developing countries to avoid “remaining on the wrong side of the digital divide.”