Welcome! Foreign Minister of the Republic of Guyana, Hon. Rudy Insanally I bid you a pleasant welcome and a special good evening. |
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Welcome! Foreign Minister of the Republic of Guyana, Hon. Rudy Insanally I bid you a pleasant welcome and a special good evening. |
Honourable Prime Minister;
Former President and Leader of the Opposition;
Speaker of the National Assembly;
Honourable Ministers;
Members of the Diplomatic Corps;
His Excellency Ellsworth John, Ambassador of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the United States of America and a special guest for our function this evening;
Distinguished Guests;
Staff of the Secretariat;
Ladies and Gentlemen;
In fulfillment of a mandate from the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a Team from the CARICOM Secretariat comprising Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, and Ms. Gloria Richards- Johnson, Assistant General Counsel, visited Bermuda from 11-13 July 2001, for high level discussions with the Hon. Jennifer Smith, Premier of Bermuda, and other officials, regarding Bermuda's application for Associate Membership of CARICOM.
His Excellency Jean Bertrand Aristide, President of the Republic of Haiti and Mrs. Aristide,
The Honorable Jean Marie Cherestal, Prime Minister,
The Honorable Yvon Neptune, President of the Senate,
The Honorable Pierre Paul Cottin, President of the Chamber of Deputies,
His Excellency Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General of the Organisation of American States,
Esteemed Members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies,
Esteemed Members of the Cabinet,
Distinguished Secretaires D'Etat
His Excellency Jean Bertrand Aristide, President of the Republic of Haiti and Mrs. Aristide,
The Honorable Jean Marie Cherestal, Prime Minister,
The Honorable Yvon Neptune, President of the Senate,
The Honorable Pierre Paul Cottin, President of the Chamber of Deputies,
His Excellency Cesar Gaviria, Secretary General of the Organisation of American States,
Esteemed Members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies,
Esteemed Members of the Cabinet,
Distinguished Secretaires D'Etat
The Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 3-6 July, 2001.
The Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Nassau, The Bahamas, on 3-6 July, 2001.
 We the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community_
COGNIZANT of the critical role of health in the economic development of our people and overawed by the prospect that our current health problems, especially HIV/AIDS, may impede such development through the devastation of our human capital;
RECOGNIZING that the escalation of these health problems is evidence of the deficiencies of our approaches, thus requiring the re-orientating and restructuring of the Health Services;
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, during their 22nd Conference, engaged in an exchange of views on the political crisis in the Republic of Haiti, which emanated from the 21 May 2000 elections in that country.