(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) and the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) at the conclusion of a two-day Meeting he hosted with Heads of Community Institutions at the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) H.E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), has expressed his gratitude to the Government of Canada for the “significant support” it had rendered to the community.

 CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, THE RT. HON HUBERT INGRAHAM, PRIME MINISTER OF THE BAHAMAS
 OTHER HEADS OF GOVERNMENT
 HONOURABLE MINISTERS
 HEADS OF DELEGATION
 COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE
 HEADS OF MILITARY ORGANISATIONS
 DISTINGUISHED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MEDIA

Good Morning to you all. A warm welcome to this Thirteenth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government.

It gives me great pleasure as Chair of the Caribbean Community to welcome you all to this very important Special Meeting of the Conference.

Permit me first to thank Prime Minister Patrick Manning our host, not only for the excellent arrangements put in place to receive us but for his primary role in causing the Summit to take place.

H.E. Felipe Caldeŕon, President of Mexico
H.E. Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique
H.E. José Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
Dr Pedro Cahan, President of the International AIDS Society and International Conference Co-Chair
Dr Luis Ramirez, Local Conference Co-Chair
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

Mr Chairman, Dr Martin Boodhoo
His Excellency Mr Jacques Crête, High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana
Justice Donald Trotman, President of the UN Association of Guyana
Justice Rudolph Harper, Chairman of the Law and Justice Committee of the United Nations Association of Guyana
Members of the UN Association of Guyana
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

Distinguished Heads of Regional Institutions and Organisations
Ambassador Charles Maynard, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Caribbean Community
Other Distinguished Delegates
Deputy Secretary-General and other Staff of the Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

It is a great pleasure for me, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to welcome you all once again to the Headquarters of the Community - your Community.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In spite of the expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of progress to achieve deeper integration, the Community must guard against divergence of opinion leading to diversion from achieving common goals, said H.E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown Guyana) Officials of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Institutions attending the first set of sectoral cluster workshops prior to a forum with H.E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM at the CARICOM Secretariat, have called for greater levels of interaction among stakeholders to address the use of natural resources and climate change, especially energy, water and land.