It is my pleasure, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to be in Antigua and Barbuda and to join in greeting you all on behalf of the Caribbean Community Secretariat and indeed of the entire Community.
This meeting comes at a very hectic period for me and the Secretariat, as we are in the process of preparing for the 31st Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, which takes place in Montego Bay, Jamaica in just over a week’s time from 4th to 7th July.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has given its support to a proposal for Haiti to have non-reciprocal access to the Community’s markets for some goods for a period of three years.
The COTED meeting ended in Georgetown on Friday and Chair of the two-day Meeting, Senator the Honourable Joanne Massiah, Minister of State in the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Antigua and Barbuda, lauded the magnanimous gesture of Member States.
Good evening, it is a pleasure to be here in Antigua and Barbuda and an even greater pleasure to deliver brief remarks at this opening ceremony of the Caribbean Regional Symposium on Agriculture Insurance.
It gives me great pleasure to be here this morning and to join you for this very important Partners’ Meeting for the establishment of the Caribbean Public Health Agency.
INTRODUCTION
It gives me great pleasure to be here this morning and to join you for this very important Partners’ Meeting for the establishment of the Caribbean Public Health Agency.
INTRODUCTION
It is, for me, a signal and special honour - indeed privilege - to have been invited by the Government of Jamaica to bear witness to today’s auspicious occasion, the swearing-in of Mr. Justice Charles Winston Anderson, as Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The occasion is particularly auspicious, as today marks the first time that a Jamaican national is being elevated to the high judicial office of Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, a development for which I have long yearned.
It is my pleasure to open the batting this afternoon, (the West Indies can do with a change!) at this Media Clinic and hope that I score more runs that the West Indies openers did in the Test Match that ended on Sunday! Seriously though this clinic has become an annual feature of the preparations for the July Meeting of Heads of Government and seeks to give the media in particular in-depth information on some of the issues which the Heads of Government will be discussing at the meeting.
Let’s Get Involved
It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. Today, 14 June 2010, we are engaging partners in a discussion on the future of one of the most impressive and important undertakings. One that may be deemed an investment in the health of the people of the Caribbean and which could well make this event a landmark in the annals of the CARICOM regional integration process.
Let’s Get Involved
It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. Today, 14 June 2010, we are engaging partners in a discussion on the future of one of the most impressive and important undertakings. One that may be deemed an investment in the health of the people of the Caribbean and which could well make this event a landmark in the annals of the CARICOM regional integration process.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “Failure was not an option”, for Haiti’s reconstruction efforts. That was the charge given to the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC) by Special Representative of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government to Haiti, former Jamaican Prime Minister, Most Honourable P.J. Patterson as it convened its first meeting in the Dominican Republic on June 2, in the margins of the World Summit for the Future of Haiti.
