​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trinidad and Tobago will be the venue this week for two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Council meetings.
The Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) will meet on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th while the Community Council will meet on Thursday 16th. Both meetings will be at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre in Port of Spain.
​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday concluded its Thirty-Sixth Meeting recording progress to boost the Community’s trade and development agenda in key areas.
The Bahamas is a valued Member of our Community, and the fact that yours was one of the first diplomatic appointments made by the recently-elected Government of The Bahamas is testimony to the importance that your country attaches to its membership of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Participants in the First Bi-Regional Dialogue (Caribbean–European Union (EU)) Workshop under the EUCARINET Project have called for increased investment in Science Technology and Innovation (STI) in the Region.
It is a pleasure for Grenada to be Chairing the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
Colleague Ministers, our Community is at yet another defining epoch in our development. Indeed, there is much skepticism among segments of our stakeholder groups, which has often-times weakened the case for the work of the COTED.
We must do two things through the important work at this 36th COTED_
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Good morning, and thank you all for being here to share in this historic occasion of the Accreditation of Slovenia’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Roman Kirn.
Ambassador, it is my pleasure and honour to accept, your credentials and to extend to you and to your country my hand and that of the Caribbean Community in friendship.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The first plenipotentiary representative of Slovenia to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Rohan Kirn, on Tuesday presented his letters of credence to Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
The accreditation, Ambassador LaRocque said, was an important symbolic gesture and a confirmation of Slovenia’s decision to embark on a new relationship with CARICOM.
CARICOM was established in 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, and is observing its 40th anniversary this year.
“The model may be challenged in other regions of the world, but it must be understood that regional integration requires constant tweaking,” he said, while alluding to the challenges currently facing the Region and the ever “evolving global multiplex of nations.”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Honourable Minister, I take this opportunity to welcome you - certainly not to your first COTED, but in your capacity as Minister for Trade of Grenada. And, of course, you have arrived in style – to take up your place as Chairman of this Council.
I also want to especially welcome the Hon. Erwin Contreras, Minister of Trade of Belize who is attending his first COTED Meeting.