(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After twenty years, the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) has much to be proud of as an advisory body instrumental in shaping cultural policies, infusing the regional culture programme with new ideas, approaches and attitudes and providing advice to Ministers of Culture on the many pressing issues on the Region’s cultural agenda.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon. Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda will launch a Regional Symposium on Services on Thursday 4 June 2009. Prime Minister Spencer, the Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Services in the Quasi Cabinet of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will launch the symposium at his Office in St. John’s.
Mr. Chairman, De. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM
The Honourable John Fabien, Minister of Health, Dominica, and Chairman of the COHSOD
The Honourable Andrew Holness, Minister of Education, Jamaica
Other Distinguished Regional Ministers
Mr. Enel Brudson, Acting Custos of St. James
Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies (UWI)
Mr. Roger McLean, Senior Research Fellow and Health Economist, Centre for Health Economics, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is the duty of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to provide strategic leadership in health and education in the face of the challenges posed by global crises.
I take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to each of you to the 18th meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development, and to Jamaica.
 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has started a series of consultative missions designed to make the organisation responsive to CARICOM Member States who are to be the first beneficiaries of grants, interest subsidies and concessionary loans.
The Caribbean Community agreed that these Member States are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana and Belize.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Second Meeting of the Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries opened today, Monday 1 June, in Suriname, with the pressing issue of the future of Caribbean Cultural Industries high on the agenda.
The meeting observed and noted that for the Caribbean Cultural Industries to bloom successfully, artists, governments and institutions needed to play their respective roles.
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The services sector is the largest and fastest growing sector of the world economy, providing more than 60% of the GDP in many countries and an even larger percentage of employment. For example, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, tourism is the world's largest employer, accounting for one in ten workers worldwide. Figures show that in 2000 services trade represented over one third of total trade in goods and services. |