Dr. Lucille Mathurin Mair is undoubtedly a Caribbean citizen of great intellectual stature and high international repute and of whom all the Caribbean is proud. For her outstanding service as a diplomat, scholar and women’s rights activist she was accorded the highly deserved honour of fifth recipient of the CARICOM Triennial Award in 1996.
The Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government Of the Caribbean Community was held in Georgetown, Guyana on 29th February – 1 March, 1996.
The Sixteenth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held in Georgetown, Guyana on 4 – 7 July, 1995.
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The Sixth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held in Belize City, Belize on 16–17 February 1995.
The Fourth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was convened on 17 – 18 November in Kingston Jamaica under the Chairmanship of hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Conference, to discuss issues related to the participation of Heads of Government in the Summit of the Americas which will be held in Miami, 9 – 11 December, 1994, and other issues of immediate interest to the Community.
The Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held at the Sherbourne Conference Centre, Bridgetown, Barbados, 4 – 7 July 1994.
Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre, OCC Awardee of 1994, and a venerable Caribbean integrationist was born in Grenada.
A highly celebrated West Indian academic and intellectual, and considered one of the great social thinkers of his time, he piloted the movement for integration as Secretary-General of CARICOM from1974-1977, and as Vice Chairman of the West Indian Commission.
For his outstanding contribution to the Caribbean as a political leader and social reformer, the OCC was conferred on Jamaica’s fourth Prime Minister, Michael Norman Manley, and son of Jamaica’s national hero Norman Washington Manley, in 1994.
As an agitator and champion of the cause of the working class, he entered Jamaica’s political arena via the trade union movement, with a strong leadership background as President of the National Workers’ Union of Jamaica and President of the Caribbean Mine Workers’ Federation which he founded.