​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Excellency, it is my great pleasure and honour to welcome you to Guyana and to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, on this historic occasion of the presentation of your credentials as the first Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the Caribbean Community. This ceremony today heralds a welcome development in deepening CARICOM-Singapore relations.
​Thank you, Secretary General Larocque, for your kind words. It is a great honour, and a great pleasure as well, to be visiting the region again.
I will keep my remarks brief. Let me simply point out that Singapore has always and continues to value our relationship with the countries of the Caribbean. Our relations with the region date back to 1971, when Singapore and Trinidad & Tobago first established diplomatic relations.
Like many of the CARICOM's member states, we are a small country. And like many of your member states as well, we are a small island state.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The progress on the Elimination Initiative and policy dialogue on the integration of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) into health systems will be the focus of the First Special Meeting of Regional Chief Medical Officers (CMOs). The meeting which is being sponsored by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), will be held in Saint Lucia from March 19-21, 2012.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Excellency, it is my great pleasure and honour to welcome you to Guyana and to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, on this historic occasion of the presentation of your credentials as the first Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the Caribbean Community. This ceremony today heralds a welcome development in deepening CARICOM-Singapore relations.
Thank you, Secretary General Larocque, for your kind words. It is a great honour, and a great pleasure as well, to be visiting the region again.
I will keep my remarks brief. Let me simply point out that Singapore has always and continues to value our relationship with the countries of the Caribbean. Our relations with the region date back to 1971, when Singapore and Trinidad & Tobago first established diplomatic relations.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has launched an online system which allows consumers in 14 Member States to alert authorities on dangerous products which they detect in the market.
It is called the CARICOM Rapid Exchange System for Dangerous non-food Consumer Goods, (CARREX) and was developed in response to concerns voiced by consumer bodies of the need to strengthen the Region’s market surveillance for unsafe consumer goods.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Region’s Chief Parliamentary Counsel will meet over the next four days to refine the PANCAP draft Regional Anti-Discrimination Model Policy, at a meeting being held, in Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Paramaribo, Suriname, from 8-9 March 2012. His Excellency, Desiré Delano Bouterse, President of the Republic of Suriname, presided.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Outgoing Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, the Rt. Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas is of the opinion that CARICOM needs to be more resolute in its responses to certain challenges – especially those which were externally imposed.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Paramaribo, Suriname, from 8-9 March 2012. His Excellency, Desiré Delano Bouterse, President of the Republic of Suriname, presided.