(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Special Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 9-10 June 2006 agreed on a framework of action for a more positive role of the national and regional educational sectors in HIV and AIDS response.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Honourable Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago begins a mission to five Member States on Wednesday 14 June with a visit to Guyana.
1. We, the Ministers of Education of the Caribbean Community, along with representatives of National AIDS Authorities, and other representatives of governments, organizations and agencies participating in the Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Education and HIV and AIDS in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 9-10June 2006;
2. Recall that the Nassau Declaration asserts that the Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region;
We, the peoples of the Caribbean, both in the Homeland and in the Diaspora, will without doubt always remember the sixth month of the sixth year of the 21st century. It is both an historic and a momentous occasion, as on 5 June 2006 the President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, officially proclaimed June 2006 - Caribbean-American Heritage Month.
For centuries, the United States of America has benefited from the contributions of the sons and daughters of the Caribbean.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The following is a message from His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Team, the Soca Warriors.
Excellency, it is certainly a pleasure to welcome you warmly as the Plenipotentiary representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). I have perused your CV and I must say that your many years of service and the dedication to your duties make you eminently qualified to be Brazil’s representative to the Caribbean Community.
Excellency, it is certainly a pleasure to welcome you warmly as the Plenipotentiary representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). I have perused your CV and I must say that your many years of service and the dedication to your duties make you eminently qualified to be Brazil’s representative to the Caribbean Community. The decision by the Government of Brazil to appoint an ambassador to CARICOM is clear evidence of the importance that Brazil places on its relations with CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trade and economic relations as well as South-South cooperation between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Brazil are expected to expand under the stewardship of His Excellency Arthur Vivacqua Correa Meyer, the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil to CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of the Republic of St.Kitts and Nevis and Chair of Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), the Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas committed the Caribbean to the goal of universal access to prevention, care, treatment and support for every man, woman and child by 2010.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean leaders are concerned about long term financing for HIV programmes in the Region because of an expected shortfall of US$900 million to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
This was one of the key issues raised at a breakfast meeting for CARICOM/ PANCAP high level officials attending the three-day United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS in New York.