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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been urged to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a driver for economic survival as one means of combating the global economic down turn.

This encouragement came from Senator Ann Peters, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health of Grenada when she addressed the opening ceremony for the 3rd Meeting of the Regional ICT Steering Committee in Grenada on Tuesday March 3rd.

Representative of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Dr. Deryck Brown, Head of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Technical Cooperation and Strategic Response Group for the Governance and Institutional Development Division
Ambassador Kishan Rana, Senior Fellow, Diplofoundation, Malta and Geneva and Professor Emeritus, Foreign Service Institute, New Delhi
Representatives from CARICOM Member States
Representatives of the Institute of International Relations and the University of the West Indies
Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat

On behalf of the Government and people of Saint Lucia, I am pleased to welcome our regional delegates to this CARICOM – OAS – CICAD – EU supported Workshop. For the next four days, we extend to you the keys to the conference of the future as change agents to a new approach in combating drug abuse in our respective territories.

According to the Drug (Misuse) Act of 1988, the Ministry of Health, through the Substance Abuse Advisory Council Secretariat, is the focal point for the implementation of mechanisms for the control, prevention and use of drugs.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Nationals have been invited to participate in the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) Logo Competition which was launched as part of the organisation’s promotional activities towards heightening understanding of the institution and its work. Interested individuals have until 20 March 2009 to submit their artwork to the CDF.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean continues to position itself to fully exploit the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the Regional ICT Steering Committee will convene for the third time. The meeting will take place 3-4 March, 2009 and will be held in Grenada for the first time. Grenada has responsibility under the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Quasi Cabinet for Science and Technology (including Information and Communication Technology).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is seeking to establish minimum standards for care and treatment as well as services and facilities for substance abusers, even as it continues its drive to reduce the demand for, and use of illicit drugs.

To this end, the Secretariat has partnered with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) to facilitate a regional training workshop, in Jamaica, on Standards of Care for Treatment and Rehabilitation Facilities for Substance Abusers.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Agreements that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have entered into and those that are to be negotiated shortly, form the core of the agenda of a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).

The Thirty-First Special Meeting will be held in Georgetown, Guyana, on Monday 2 March 2009. Officials begin meeting on Friday 27 February 2009.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)

Buenos Dias Señoras y Señores,

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)

Buenos Dias Señoras y Señores,