The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held its Thirteenth Special Meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 4-5 April 2008.
Crime and Security was the focus of the Meeting as agreed at the Nineteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas. The thrust of the Meeting was to ‘fully ventilate the crime and security issues facing the Region and to agree on a Strategy and Plan of Action to stem the rising tide of violent criminality’.
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.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All 15 Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and one Associate Member will be represented at the Thirteenth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government taking place in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 5 April 2008.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in preparation for its second regional school quiz to mark the 35th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas will conduct a one-day workshop for quiz masters in Basseterre, St Kitts on 3 April, 2008.
The aim of the workshop is to build the capacity of quiz masters to conduct competitions in CARICOM Member States and Associate Members.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chile's new Ambassador to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday underscored his country’s interest in developing closer ties with the Community in trade, poverty alleviation and coastal border administration.
His Excellency José Gabriel Zepeda presented his credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington on Wednesday August 20, 2008 at the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.
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We the Ministers of the Caribbean Community with responsibility for Children together with representatives of regional and international development organizations and regional educational institutions participating in the Twelfth Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Children at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Turkeyen, 17th – 19th March, 2008;
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twelfth Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) ended its three-day session in Georgetown, Guyana on 19 March 2008 with a twenty-point Declaration entitled Building a Region Fit for Children.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) at its Twelfth Special Meeting which focused on Children agreed in principle to a recommendation that an Envoy for Children be identified for the Caribbean.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The Twelfth Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which focussed on Children, was convened at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana on 17 -19 March, 2008 under the theme, Building a Region Fit for Children.
In attendance were_