(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Bahamas Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis has been given high commendations by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), for having received the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) Annual Award for excellence in health administration.

The PAHO Award for Administration 2009 is given to a candidate who has made significant contribution to national and regional health development through the management or execution of health services and programmes, teaching and research.

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The observance of Caribbean Wellness Day 2009 came up for high plaudits by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health at their meeting in Washington, USA on the week-end.

The Meeting of the 18th Caucus of Ministers of Health said they were “thrilled at the positive report, particularly from Trinidad and Tobago, on the second celebration of Caribbean Wellness Day,” on 12 September 2009.

 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health meeting in Washington DC, USA at their 18th Caucus fully endorsed the time table for the establishment of the Caribbean Public Health Authority (CARPHA) in 2010.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would like a voice in the Group of 20 (G20). This was one of the issues raised by the Community’s Foreign Ministers during a meeting with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York, USA last Friday 25 September.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The business community and hoteliers in Belize will benefit from two one-day seminars on effective use of solar energy to be facilitated by the Caribbean Regional Energy Development Programme (CREDP) of the CARICOM Secretariat on 3-4 October, 2007 at the Radisson Fort George Hotel and Marina in Belize City.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than two hundred students from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be exposed to the operation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) during the period 30 August to 3 October 2009.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be in Mexico for the 5th Meeting of the CARICOM-Mexico Joint Commission which takes place on 1st October 2009 in Mexico City.

The one-day meeting will be followed by a Business Promotion Forum on 2nd October. The business forum will bring together representatives of private sector from CARICOM Member States and Mexico.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The implementation of the Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework (CRSF) on HIV and AIDS (2008 -2012) along with the development of the Priority Area Co-ordinating Committee (PACC) and the proposed constitution for the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) were some of the major discussions which took place at the just concluded 13th Meeting of the Regional Co-ordinating Mechanism of PANCAP. The meeting took place from September 17 – 18, 2009 at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) views with continuing grave concern the situation in Honduras arising from the removal by military intervention of the democratically elected Head of State, President Manuel Zelaya.

The Caribbean Community notes the recent return to Honduras of President Zelaya and his presence in the Embassy of Brazil. The Community wishes to underline the critical importance of respecting the inviolability of diplomatic premises and of the persons therein.

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Foreign Affairs will over the next two days be fully engaged in a series of meetings on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, USA.

Foreign Ministers will convene the Twelfth informal consultations of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) on Friday 25 September 2009 with a packed agenda of critical issues.