Prime Minister of St Lucia Dr The Hon Kenny Anthony
Hon Rafael Dezcallar, Under-Secretary for Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain
The Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
H.E. Jesus Silva and other members of the Diplomatic corps
The Honourable Derek Walcott, Noble Laureate
Honourable Rex Nettleford
Specially invited guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
Press Releases
Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards and Dr. Jean Ramjohn Richards,
Honourable Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Senator Hazel Manning,
Artists,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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Government Ministers Members of the Diplomatic Corps Visitors to our Shores |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington, was among three CARICOM representatives participating in this week’s celebrations of Belize’s 25th Anniversary of Independence.
It was 25 years ago today that Belizeans achieved their aspirations nurtured over many years to rid themselves of colonial status and become a sovereign independent State with security and territorial integrity.
This was made possible above all because so many Belizeans had, over the centuries since the settlement was established by British logwood cutters, struggled for their rights, first against slavery and later against colonialism.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) opens in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, 22 September, 2006.
The ten-day festival which ends on 1 October will see the introduction of some of the elements of a Strategic Plan for a New CARIFESTA. This plan received the full support of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government in 2004 as they accepted the new mission “to stage a mega multi disciplinary festival that develops Caribbean Arts and Culture.”
As we, in the Caribbean, mark on 21 September, another observance of International Day of Peace with the rest of the world, we do so in the midst of an extremely dangerous and difficult period of multiple crises. As we look at the world today, we cannot escape the reality of widespread violence, gross abuses of international humanitarian law, atrocities against children, women and even entire communities, and open conflict. Our world is indeed confronted by a wide range of threats to peace and security.
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Prime Minister The Hon Patrick Manning The Hon John Rahael, Minister of Health Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of UWI and UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Members of the Diplomatic Corps Other Officials |
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Prime Minister The Hon Patrick Manning The Hon John Rahael, Minister of Health Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of UWI and UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Members of the Diplomatic Corps Other Officials |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of CARICOM, His Excellency Edwin Carrington has congratulated His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, the President of Guyana on his recent re-election to the post following his success at the 28 August general elections in Guyana.
The message reads_
“Excellency,