The Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development of the Caribbean Community (COHSOD XV) was convened at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown, Guyana on 19-21 October 2006 under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Anthony Wood, Minister of Education, Barbados.
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I welcome you all most sincerely to this Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development.
This Meeting is taking place at a critical juncture in the life of the Community. The CARICOM Single Market was established in January this year. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) With the Single Market component of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) now in operation, work is intensifying to effectively position Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to reap the benefits from the Single Market.
To this end, representatives of SMEs will gather in Guyana on 24-25 October 2006 for the Second Region-wide Roundtable aimed at developing strategic action plans and coordinating mechanisms for SMEs.
Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, has described the Second Joint Commission Meeting of CARICOM and the Kingdom of Spain as “fruitful and successful.”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In his inaugural address at a CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) Meeting, Guyana’s newly appointed Minister of Education, Hon Sheik Baksh sounded the call for CARICOM policy makers to take on board the impact some regional decision in the area of human and social development could have on constituents in the Community.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Fifteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), the Hon. Anthony Wood, Education Minister of Barbados has reaffirmed his Government’s ongoing commitment to the social and economic integration process in the Caribbean Community.
I welcome you all most sincerely to this Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development.
This Meeting is taking place at a critical juncture in the life of the Community. The CARICOM Single Market was established in January this year. Soon after, a new democratically elected government in Haiti returned to the fold of the Community and took its rightful place at the table of the Conference of Heads of Government in St Kitts and Nevis in July 2006.
Special Welcome to Haiti
Excellency,
I am pleased to extend, on behalf of the Caribbean Community and the staff of the Caribbean Community Secretariat, heartiest congratulations on your recognition as an African Living Legend by the African Press in Ghana.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Fifteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) opens on Thursday 19 October at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, where officials are expected to mull over a range of issues considered pressing to human development in the Caribbean.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Bureau of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in St Kitts and Nevis on Tuesday 17 October 2006 for its Twenty-First Meeting.