We, the Heads of State and Government and their representatives of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Central American Integration System (SICA) (hereinafter called the Parties) meeting in Belize City, Belize on the 12th of May 2007 on the occasion of the Second CARICOM-SICA Summit.
Considering the objectives and commitments assumed by the Parties at, the historic, First CARICOM- SICA Summit, held on 5th February 2002 in Belize City.
The Tenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) of the Caribbean Community was held in Belize City, Belize, 10-11 May 2007, under the chairmanship of the Hon. Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Belize. The Ministers attending were_ the Hon. W. Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antigua and Barbuda; the Hon. Dame Billie Miller, DA, BCH, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados; the Hon.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Climate Change and Energy issues are among the items on the agenda of the Second Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Integration System of Central America (SICA) who meet in Belize on Saturday 12 May 2007.
The one-day meeting will be preceded on the afternoon of 11 May by a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of CARICOM and Central America also in Belize. The CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) has been meeting in Belize from 10 May.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, of the CARICOM Secretariat is encouraging and advocating a closer relationship between the Diaspora and Caribbean Youth; a relationship he describes as “vital to an appreciation of the Caribbean identity.”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, of the CARICOM Secretariat has described as 'opportune,' the call for Caribbean youth to participate in the Conference on the Caribbean scheduled to take place in Washington DC on June 19-21, 2007.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at its upcoming meeting in St Vincent and the Grenadines, on 26 May 2007 will offer the last opportunity for review and fine-tuning of the Community’s agenda for the Conference on the Caribbean 2007, slated for Washington on June 19-21.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will host the inaugural meeting of the Regional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Steering Committee at the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana on May 16, 2007.
The work of the Regional ICT Steering Committee is an integral part of a project that will aid the development of the Caribbean Information Society (CARIB-IS). The CARICOM Secretariat received €2M for the project under the Ninth European Development Fund (EDF).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) High-ranking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Officials are now fine-tuning their slate of issues in preparation for high level talks with US President George Bush at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, 20 June, 2007. This summit between CARICOM Heads of State/Government is a major highlight of the three-pronged landmark Conference on the Caribbean 2007, June 19-21 in Washington, under the theme_ Conference on the Caribbean_ A 20/20 Vision.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Caucus of Ambassadors is spearheading a major advocacy and promotion Initiative in a number of US cities in advance of the Conference on the Caribbean, 2007.
A ‘Diaspora Dialogue,’ in the form of Town Hall Meetings has been organised in Washington, New York, Hartford, Philadelphia and Miami primarily to engage the Diaspora in planning the conference and in shaping its outcome.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community intensifies the pace of its preparations to meet in Washington DC at what promises to be the landmark Caribbean Conference on 19-21 June 2007, widespread and in-depth consultations are underway in cities across the US, between the Diaspora and the CARICOM Caucus of Ambassadors based in Washington.