Press Releases

(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.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Preparations for CARIFESTA X, the Caribbean Community’s premier Festival of the Arts will be one of the key issues high on the agenda of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) slated for Havana Cuba, on 8-9 June 2007.

The Bahamas, which has responsibility for hosting CARIFESTA X in August, 2008 will be expected to provide the Meeting with a comprehensive report on the status of preparations for the festival.

Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2007_ The Coordinating Director of the Port of Spain-based Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), Mr Tyrone Sutherland, was unanimously re-elected for a second term as the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Second Vice-President. Mr Sutherland has served on the WMO Executive Council since 1999, and was first elected as a Vice-President in 2003.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government of St. Lucia has launched HelenInfo, its adaptation of DevInfo 5.0., a mechanism to monitor statistics and indicators. HelenInfo, was launched on 13 April 2007 under a joint collaborative arrangement instituted primarily by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and UNICEF to strengthen statistical capacity in the area of Social Statistics in the Region, a critical factor being access to data by users for decision-making, policy formulation and research.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Councils for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and Finance and Planning (COFAP) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in a joint session from 5-7 June 2007 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Joint Meeting will consider a revision of `Towards a Single Economy and a Single Development Vision’, a report done by Professor Norman Girvan.

he Honourable Sir Louis Straker, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers
The Honourable Dame Billie Miller, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
Other Honourable Ministers
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Distinguished Delegates
Staff of the Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen_