(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has been identified as one of the agencies through which an additional $5M from the Australian Government will be channeled for immediate emergency humanitarian assistance for Haiti.
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Salutations
I congratulate the Board of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and its General Manager, Mrs. Marlene Street-Forrest for organizing what portends to be a most exciting Conference.
The timing is opportune as the Caribbean struggles for survival in a changed and most uncertain global economic environment and as the international community struggles to help Haiti rebuild after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010.
I consider this Conference to be both visionary and timely.
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Ladies and Gentlemen_
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the future are represented by suffering millions; and the youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. (hier een wat zwaardere stem dan de normale stem) |
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Honourable Patrick Simmons, Minister of Youth Empowerment, Culture and Sport of Grenada and Chairman of the Council for Human and Social Development of the Caribbean Community;
ļ¶ Honourable Ministers; ļ¶ Honourable Jermaine Wade, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Affairs, Community Services and Sports, Montserrat |
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Acknowledgements ā¢ Suriname for hosting ā¢ CARICOM Secretariat Staff for preparing ā¢ Haiti for attending despite their tragedy ā¢ Commissioners for fulfilling their mandate ā¢ Colleague Ministers for attending |
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It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the Republic of Suriname at this Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) with special focus on youth and development.
Yesterday, young people of CARICOM Member States came together in this very same venue to discuss that draft Report of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) which will be submitted to us today. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haitiās youth representatives attending the Regional Youth Forum in Paramaribo, Suriname, on Wednesday, were lauded for their āgrim determination and resilienceā by speakers at the opening ceremony of the Forum, which is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
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Salutations Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen_
A special welcome to the delegation of Haiti, Mr Junior Mercier and Ms Letitia Cadet, Haitiās CARICOM Youth Ambassador. This forum takes place at an appropriate time ā at the commencement of the International Year of the Youth and on the eve of the presentation of the Commission on Youth Developmentās report to CARICOM Heads of Government. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Former Jamaica Prime Minister Most Honourable Percival Patterson is leading a delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to a meeting of a Coordination Committee created to organise an International Conference which will have as its objective, the devising of a Strategic Plan for the Reconstruction of Haiti following the catastrophic earthquake of 12 January 2010.