1. The Fourth General Meeting between the Secretariats of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organisation of American States (OAS) was convened at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana on 2 March 2007. The CARICOM delegation was led by His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of the Caribbean Community. The OAS delegation was led by the Secretary General, His Excellency Jose Miguel Insulza. This is the first time that the respective Secretaries General are leading their delegations to a meeting of the two Secretariats.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington has held several meetings on the margins of the 19th Summit of the Rio Group of States now underway in Georgetown.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCoYD) will be officially launched on Monday 5 March, 2007 in a ceremony at the Krasnapolsky Hotel, Paramaribo, Suriname at 7_00PM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) signed a Cooperation Arrangement on International Humanitarian Law on March 1, 2007. The Arrangement will facilitate the promotion, ratification and implementation by CARICOM member states of the major international humanitarian law instruments.
Washington, September 14, 2007 (PAHO) – A major new campaign to fight chronic disease in the Caribbean is getting underway in an effort to stem “the worst epidemic of chronic diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory disease in the Americas,” with the participation of heads of government.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Members of the Mini Grant Programme (MGP) Youth Technical Resource Team from six participating countries will meet at the Heritage Hotel in Antigua and Barbuda on 24-26, February, 2007 to review the draft MGP training/participant modules and handbook for trainers and youth workers in HIV/AIDS.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On February 22-23, 2007, Ministers of Trade of the following Central American countries - Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama - and the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Belize City to discuss bilateral trade relations among their countries and their experiences in international trade negotiations, including in the multilateral trade forum.
The Caribbean region’s first travelling film showcase will be officially launched on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 at a ceremony to be held at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank - the venue for the five-day showcase - in St. Kitts and Nevis. Chairman of the Havana-based International Organising Committee, Senor Rigoberto Lopez, will deliver the keynote address