(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM is approaching next week’s Conference on the Caribbean as the start of a new process of engagement between the Region and the United States.

More than 100 Caribbean officials will be in Washington for the Conference to be held in Washington DC from 19-21 June, and 700 persons have already registered. The highpoint is expected to be a meeting between the CARICOM Heads of Government and the President of the United States on Wednesday 20 June.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM is approaching next week’s Conference on the Caribbean as the start of a new process of engagement between the Region and the United States.

More than 100 Caribbean officials will be in Washington for the Conference to be held in Washington DC from 19-21 June, and 700 persons have already registered. The highpoint is expected to be a meeting between the CARICOM Heads of Government and the President of the United States on Wednesday 20 June.

Your Excellency Ambassador Jose L. Vignolo
Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite
Members of Executive Management
Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Other Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

It is my honour and pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you, Ambassador Vignolo, on the occasion of your accreditation as the first Plenipotentiary Representative of the Argentine Republic to the Caribbean Community.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Special Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Health will be convened at the offices of the Pan American Health Organisation, Caribbean Office, Bridgetown, Barbados on 15 June 2007.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors are partnering with telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, to develop a high impact Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project that is expected to engage Caribbean Youth in competitive activities that will promote the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors are partnering with telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, to develop a high impact Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project that is expected to engage Caribbean Youth in competitive activities that will promote the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados the Rt Honourable Owen Arthur and United States Commerce Secretary Mr. Carlos Gutierrez will deliver the keynote addresses on behalf of CARICOM and the United States respectively, at the Plenary Opening Ceremony of the Conference on the Caribbean which begins in Washington DC on 19 June 2007.

It was stated earlier, in error, that the keynote address on behalf of the United States would have been delivered by US Secretary to the Treasury Henry Paulson Jr.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat wishes to thank Mr. Bryn Pollard for his letter to the Editor, Stabroek News on Saturday, 9 June 2007 entitled `National Committees are Vital to the Implementation of the Charter of Civil Society’. In stating that “Article 4 of the Charter mandates every Member State adopting the Charter to establish a National Committee”, he makes the seminal point. The rest, including the composition and functions of the Committee follows.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados the Rt Honourable Owen Arthur, who also has the lead portfolio for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and US Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Henry M. Paulson Jr., will deliver the keynote addresses at the Plenary Opening Ceremony of the Conference on the Caribbean which begins in Washington DC, USA on 19 June, 2007.

BOLANS, Antigua_ Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Information, Broadcasting and Communications Dr Edmond Mansoor has said that the accessibility to Information Communication Technologies ICT’s will determine the rate at which a knowledge-based economy will emerge in Antigua and Barbuda.