Two years ago, when I had the honour of addressing this august body for the second time, I committed the Caribbean to achieving universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services by the year 2010. It was bold pronouncement on the part of the Caribbean considering the twin problems of a region with the second highest prevalence of HIV infection in the world and limited technical and financial resources that the Region had to surmount in order to achieve this milestone.
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Two years ago, when I had the honour of addressing this august body for the second time, I committed the Caribbean to achieving universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support services by the year 2010. It was bold pronouncement on the part of the Caribbean considering the twin problems of a region with the second highest prevalence of HIV infection in the world and limited technical and financial resources that the Region had to surmount in order to achieve this milestone.
Your Excellency Ricardo Villanueva Hallal, Plenipotentiary Representative of the United Mexican States to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM
Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Other Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen
Representatives of the Media.
On behalf of His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington, CARICOM Secretary-General, I welcome you to the Caribbean Community Secretariat.
Your Excellency Ricardo Villanueva Hallal, Plenipotentiary Representative of the United Mexican States to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM
Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Other Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen
Representatives of the Media.
On behalf of His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington, CARICOM Secretary-General, I welcome you to the Caribbean Community Secretariat.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary General, Human and Social Development of the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM Secretariat) led a team of Staff Members from the CARICOM Secretariat and the Ministry of Health Guyana, on a Four Mile Green Walk on World Environment Day, Thursday, 5 June 2008.
Mr. Chairman - the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Bahamas
Other Honourable Ministers
Their Excellencies Ambassadors to the Caribbean Community
Deputy Secretary-General and other members of the Executive Management of the CARICOM Secretariat
Distinguished Delegates
Representatives of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, (CARICOM) may I welcome you to this the Twenty-Second Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, the second highest Organ of the Community.
Secretary–General
Colleague Ministers
Other Representatives of Member States
Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Thank you for your warm welcome on this my first visit to Guyana. I know I shall enjoy my short stay in this beautiful country. I am also, as Chairman of this Council, in the interesting position of having to welcome the host Minster, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett of Guyana, to her first meeting of Community Council. Welcome, Minister!
His Excellency the President of Guyana
The Hon. Prime Minister of Guyana
The Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Cabinet Ministers of Guyana and other Honourable Ministers of Government of the Caribbean Community
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Mr. James Moss-Solomon, Chairman, and other Members of the Task Force
Members of the Private Sector
Deputy Secretary-General and other members of the Executive Management of the CARICOM Secretariat
Other Distinguished Participants
Representatives of the Media
Secretary-General,
Madam Deputy Secretary-General,
Members of staff of the Secretariat,
Colleagues,
It is a great honour for me to have been appointed by Prime Minister David Thompson to be Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM and to be welcomed formally today into the CARICOM family.
Let me begin by underlining Barbados’ unwavering commitment to the regional integration movement. Most recently, at his inaugural speech at the 19th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads, Prime Minister Thompson made clear from the outset that_
Secretary–General
Colleague Ministers
Other Representatives of Member States
Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media
Thank you for your warm welcome on this my first visit to Guyana. I know I shall enjoy my short stay in this beautiful country. I am also, as Chairman of this Council, in the interesting position of having to welcome the host Minster, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett of Guyana, to her first meeting of Community Council. Welcome, Minister!