CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean Trade Ministers meeting in Barbados yesterday (November 19), in preparation for the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, which will take place in Hong Kong December 13 to 18, emphasized that unless development issues are given prominence in the negotiating agenda, the Ministerial is not likely to end in agreement. This is fundamental for small, vulnerable Caribbean countries.
The development dimension of the Doha Round is vitally important for the Caribbean, but continues to be neglected in the negotiating agenda.
Press Releases
Regional Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) will meet on 22-23 November 2005 in Georgetown, Guyana at the second Champions for Change Conference to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)Caribbean Ministers attending Phase 11 of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have been very involved in the activities in Tunis, Tunisia where the Summit opened on Wednesday 16 November.
The Hon Burchell Whiteman, Jamaica’s Minister of Information and his colleague the Hon. Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology have participated in official parallel events at the Summit site. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington today joined the rest of the Caribbean Community in extending warm congratulations to the Captain and players of the Trinidad and Tobago National Football team on the occasion of their success in qualifying for the World Cup Finals to be held in Germany next summer.
Your Excellency Ambassador Patrick Boursin
Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Enfin nous y sommes! - Finally we are here! It is truly my pleasure and honour to do what history and geography, culture and anthropology have long deemed natural and inevitable. It is my pleasure to formally affirm the ties that bind the Caribbean Community and the French Departments in the Americas and Metropolitan France.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)The CARICOM Secretariat extends to the Association of Caribbean Media Workers heartiest congratulations on the election and installation of a new executive. Your organisation, representing as it does, media professionals from across the Caribbean region, is well placed to play a critical informational and educational role, as we take yet another important step to deepen the regional integration movement, with the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market in January 2006.
Press release 172/2005
(13 October 2005 )
Deputy Secretary General
Members of the CARICOM Staff
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
Today I am extremely honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Maynard, and to receive his Credentials accrediting him as Dominica’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Your Excellency, I welcome you on this occasion to the new Headquarters of the Caribbean Community.
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Your Excellency Ambassador Patrick Boursin  Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Distinguished Guests |
The Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gets under way this week in Tunisia with a promise of bridging the digital divide between the more developed and developing countries and hastening the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the help of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Sports Development Programme of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is spear-heading plans for the staging of a Day of Sports and Cultureat Guyana’s National Park on Saturday 19 November as a means of increasing awareness of the value of sports to the health and prosperity of a nation.