By mahtabala, 10 May, 2010

BROADBAND INTERNET CAN SPUR ANTI-POVERTY EFFORTS, UN AGENCY SAYS

New York, May 10 2010 12_05PM
Information and communication technologies, such as high-speed internet, can help drive social and economic development and accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals , the head of the United Nations telecommunications agency said today.

“The truly transformational power of broadband networks can help us get the MDGs back on track,” Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), told the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Forum.

By mahtabala, 26 April, 2010

OPENING REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA ON THE OCCASION OF THE CARICOM-BRAZIL SUMMIT, 26 APRIL 2010, BRASILIA, BRAZIL

Your Excellency Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of the Federal Republic of Brazil
Your Excellency Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Acting Minister of External Relations of the Federal Republic of Brazil
Other distinguished Representatives of the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Distinguished Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community
Distinguished delegates of CARICOM
Other Distinguished Guests

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By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010

CARICOM DELEGATION IN HAITI ON FOLLOW-UP MISSION

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Former Jamaican Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson, Special Representative of the CARICOM Heads of Government on Haiti, is in Haiti as part of follow-up activities to the International Donor Conference_ ‘Towards a New Future for Haiti’ held in New York last month. The Donor Conference, held at the United Nations Headquarters on 31 March, raised US$9.9B for Haiti’s reconstruction.

By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010

REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE FOURTEENTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 15 APRIL 2010, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I am pleased to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegations of Japan and of CARICOM to this Fourteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultations.

Ladies and Gentlemen, today’s Meeting is taking place in the shadow of a most tragic event – the passing of Dr. Tadaomi Nakai, former Adviser of the Government of Japan on Regional Project Formulation in the CARICOM Secretariat. Dr.

By mahtabala, 15 April, 2010

REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION FO THE THIRD MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CARIBBEAN AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY OVERSIGHT SYSTEM (CASSOS), 15 APRIL 2010, GEORGETOWN, GUYAN

Welcome to Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat!

Since we last met at the Secretariat’s Headquarters in February 2009 on the occasion of the formal launching of Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS), our fledging Institution has suffered a tragic loss, the impact of which is still with us and will continue to be with us for some time.