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CREDIT UNIONS- TOWARDS A BETTER TOMORROW |
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It is always with great pleasure that I seize opportunities to return home when my schedule allows. All the more so today when that opportunity involves contributing to the development of a people-based institution such as the credit union movement. |
Press Releases
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has despatched a three-member team to Jamaica as part of the International Observers to the electoral process in that country. General elections are being held in Jamaica on Wednesday 16 October, 2002.
The team is led by Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign Policy and Community Relations, CARICOM Secretariat and includes Dr S.R. Surujbally, Chairman of the Elections Commission of Guyana, and Mr Carson Raggie, Chief Elections Officer, Saint Lucia.
Honourable Prime Minister
His Lordship the Chief Justice
Ministers of Government
Members of Parliament
Former Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
President of the Caribbean Development Bank Professor Bourne and past President Sir Neville Nicholls
Representatives of National, Regional and International Agencies
ASG Regional Trade and Economic Integration and other members of Staff of the Secretariat
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
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The event which we celebrate this evening will hopefully come to be regarded not so much as a small step in the creation of a Unit, but a giant step in our support of a cause. For it ushers in the formal commencement of the new economic arrangement for our region which hopefully will create for us a future which will be unrecognisable and more prosperous than the past out of which we have emerged. |
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will take a major step in advancing the Regional integration process when the Unit to spearhead implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) opens its offices in Barbados on Monday 14 October, 2002.
The offices will be located on the 6th Floor of the Tom Adams Financial Centre in Bridgetown until the completion of the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters Building in Georgetown, Guyana. This move is being made to accelerate the establishment of the Single Market and Economy.
Chairman
Hon. Samuel Hinds, Prime Minister
Dr. the Hon. Henry Jeffrey, Minister of Education
Permanent Secretary
Chief Education Officer
Distinguished guests
Senior Government and other Officials
Principals, Teachers, Parents
Awardees, Students
Members of the media
It is with deep sorrow that I have learned of the passing of the Hon. David Allen, Minister of Tourism. The Government and People of Bermuda have lost a dynamic and committed representative.
The Region's Tourism Sector will sorely miss the energy and leadership which he so passionately displayed during his tenure as a member of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO).
His Excellency the President Bharat Jagdeo
Hon Minister of Education, Dr Henry Jeffrey
Senior Government and other Officials
Distinguished Guests
Principals and Teachers,
Students, and, most importantly, the students we are recognizing and awarding today for your high achievements_
I have learnt with great distress the reports of loss of life of several of your citizens as well as of the extensive damage caused to houses, public buildings and agricultural production in St. Vincent and the Grenadines resulting from the passage of Tropical Storm Lili through your country yesterday.
On behalf of the Community, its Secretariat and on my own behalf, I extend sincerest condolences to the Government and people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and to the family of the deceased.
The Regional Educational Programme for Animal Health Assistants, REPAHA, pursuant to a decision of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at its Thirteenth Inter Sessional Meeting in February 2002, officially closed its doors for the last time on 31 August 2002.