(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A review of the Agriculture Donor Conference held in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2007, is among the key agenda items the Caucus of CARICOM Ministers of Agriculture will consider in Antigua, Guatemala on 24 July 2007.

According to the provisional agenda of the Meting, the Ministers will review the conference and follow-up action plan and will also consider the CARICOM Agriculture Investment Conference which is to be hosted by Jamaica.

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government will meet Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an informal session on 19 July in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Prime Minister Harper, who is on a four-nation tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, will visit Haiti after his stop in Barbados.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After a four day meeting in Jamaica, CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) are mobilizing to help the recently-established CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) execute its mandate to chart a practical agenda for regional youth development.

Mr. Chairperson;
Dr. L. Barbara Graham, FAO Representative;
Mr. Bruce Lauckner; Executive Director (ag), CARDI
Ms. Emanuela Benini, Director, Italian Cooperation, Regional office for Central America and the Caribbean, Embassy of Italy, Guatemala;
Mr. Greg Rawlings, Project Consultant
National Coordinators and Focal Points;
Colleagues All_

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) While the Caribbean has made some strides in addressing the issue of food security, much work needs to be done to meet some pressing challenges that continue to face the Caribbean in this critical area of development.

Mr. Chairperson;
Dr. L. Barbara Graham, FAO Representative;
Mr. Bruce Lauckner; Executive Director (ag), CARDI
Ms. Emanuela Benini, Director, Italian Cooperation, Regional office for Central America and the Caribbean, Embassy of Italy, Guatemala;
Mr. Greg Rawlings, Project Consultant
National Coordinators and Focal Points;
Colleagues All_

The Twenty-Eighth Regular Meeting of the Conference of The Conference of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Needham’s Point, Barbados, from 1-4 July 2007. The Right Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, presided.