(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers of Health of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have endorsed a plan of action for the transition of the Regional Health Institutions into the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) by 2010. The endorsement was made at the annual Caucus of the Ministers of Health held in Washington DC, USA on the eve of the PAHO Directing Council which began in Washington DC on 29 September.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington and the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Mr Hans Winkler, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on CARICOM-Austria Co-operation on Saturday 27 September in New York, USA. The major areas of focus of the MOU will be disaster management and alternative energy.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In an effort to provide aid to storm-ravaged Haiti, as it recovers from four consecutive storms that have left a huge death toll and thousands displaced, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat organised a humanitarian drive.

Accessibility to Information Communication Technologies ICT’s will determine the rate at which a knowledge-based economy will emerge in Antigua and Barbuda, expressed Dr Edmond Mansoor, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Information, Broadcasting and Communications in an information society seminar recently.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington completed a two day visit to Haiti on Wednesday 24 September with a visit to Gonaives and Porte du Paix, two of the areas hardest hit during the recent multiple-storm assault on the country.