Mr. Chairperson;
Dr. L. Barbara Graham, FAO Representative;
Mr. Bruce Lauckner; Executive Director (ag), CARDI
Ms. Emanuela Benini, Director, Italian Cooperation, Regional office for Central America and the Caribbean, Embassy of Italy, Guatemala;
Mr. Greg Rawlings, Project Consultant
National Coordinators and Focal Points;
Colleagues All_
Speeches
The Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Mrs. Arthur
Your Excellencies the Presidents of Guyana and of Haiti
Other Distinguished Heads of Government and Representatives of the Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community
Honourable Ministers
The Speaker and Other Members of Parliament
Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives and Special Guest of the Community
Mr. Chairman, Caricom Secretary General, Colleague Prime Ministers, Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my greatest pleasure at this time to be addressing this, the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. For me it’s an added privilege to be doing so here in Barbados , one of Saint Lucia ’s closer Caribbean neighbours.
Mr. Chairman, I recognise very specially the Prime Minister of the Bahamas , the Honourable Hubert Ingraham, who was recently re-elected to his Office after a voluntary five-year respite from his Prime Ministerial perch. He had welcomed me to the Bahamas at my first Heads of Government Conference in July 2001. I now reciprocate. Prime Minister Ingraham is a veteran of CARICOM; his wisdom and experience will no doubt assist us in charting the most efficacious way forward.
The Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Mrs. Arthur
Your Excellencies the Presidents of Guyana and of Haiti
Other Distinguished Heads of Government and Representatives of the Member States and Associate Members of the Caribbean Community
Honourable Ministers
The Speaker and Other Members of Parliament
Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives and Special Guest of the Community
Mr. Chairman, Caricom Secretary General, Colleague Prime Ministers, Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my greatest pleasure at this time to be addressing this, the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. For me it’s an added privilege to be doing so here in Barbados , one of Saint Lucia ’s closer Caribbean neighbours.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown , Guyana ) Saturday 30 June 2007_ Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, will address the formal opening ceremony of the 28th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of CARICOM Sunday 1 July 2007, in the Courtyard of the Barbados Parliament, in Bridgetown . Prime Minister Arthur is Incoming Chairman of CARICOM and Head of Government with Portfolio Responsibility for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Congressman Charles Rangel, a leading Member of the United States House of Representatives will be a Special Guest at the 28th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to be held in Barbados from 1-4 July, 2007.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Incoming Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, will address the formal opening ceremony of the 28th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of CARICOM on 1 July 2007 in the Courtyard of the Barbados Parliament.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which opens in Barbados on Sunday 1 July, will consider critical issues under the broad context of increased functional cooperation in the Region, according to CARICOM Secretary General, H.E. Edwin Carrington.