(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Bureau of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) has issued a statement on developments in Gaza.
Following is the text of the statement_
As Prime Minister of Belize I have, on January 1, 2009, assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community for the next six months. I count myself lucky that this has happened at this time, allowing me the opportunity to send out warmest New Year greetings to the entire CARICOM family. It is also of significance that I do this from my own country in Central America. That particular characteristic of geography is a reminder of the reach and scope of our Community, the fact that we include portions of continents and sub continents, that we are Latin American as well as Caribbean.
The global postal network of which the Caribbean region is part is committed to an affordable, accessible universal service treating the world as a single postal territory for the reciprocal exchange of communications items. This network with six hundred and sixty thousand post offices and eleven million employees continues to evolve and develop through the use of modern technology, operating systems and methods in order to ensure its viability and sustainability. It is also ideally placed to help build the necessary infrastructure on which to base an integrated information society.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Twenty-six year old Barbadian Donna Greene, is the new Dean of the CARICOM Youth Ambassador (CYA) programme. Making the announcement on Thursday, 13 December, 2007) at the closing of the CYA Strategic Evaluation and Planning workshop, Dr Heather Johnson Deputy Programme Manager, Community and Youth Development said, “as youth ambassador for the past two years, Donna is passionate about youth empowerment and is committed to the ideals and values of the programme.
by Toby Ward — The drive to reduce costs is prompting a convergence between the corporate intranet, extranet and Internet.
One website, multiple audiences. E-business convergence promises to meld Internet, extranet and intranet platforms into a single ubiquitous platform that serves up content and data based upon the user’s profile. Sounds glorious, doesn’t it?
Salutations
The Mandate
The CARICOM Commission on Youth Development arose out of a mandate from the 27th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government held in St. Kitts and Nevis in July 2006. The Mandate is to “provide a full scale analysis of the challenges and opportunities for youth in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and to make recommendations on how to improve their well-being and empowerment.”
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Co-chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission on Youth Development, (CCYD) Professor Barry Chevannes has described preliminary research findings on the situation of Caribbean youth as “rich and interesting yet disturbing.”