Colleague Prime Ministers
Heads of Delegations
Ministers of Trade
CARICOM Secretary General
Senior Officials and Members of the CARICOM Secretariat
Ambassador Bernal and Members of the Regional Negotiating Machinery
Delegates
Members of the media
I welcome you warmly to Montego Bay - the complete resort.
It is always a pleasure to welcome you, my colleague Ministers, officials and staff of the CARICOM Secretariat to Jamaica. We are meeting this time in the second city of Montego Bay and I urge you to take some time to explore – this is a rapidly growing city and you will, no doubt, see the very real impact of the growth in trade in services in full flight – new hotels are opening up, excellent restaurants and new business opportunities abound. For us, in a very practical way, the tourism sector continues to contribute in a robust way to the national economy.
The Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belize and Chairman of the COTED
Hon Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Coordinator of the Ministerial Negotiators
The Hon Anthony Hylton, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica – Our Host Minister
Other Distinguished Ministers
Director-General of the CRNM
Other Senior Officials of Member States and of Regional Organisations
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is always a pleasure to welcome you, my colleague Ministers, officials and staff of the CARICOM Secretariat to Jamaica. We are meeting this time in the second city of Montego Bay and I urge you to take some time to explore – this is a rapidly growing city and you will, no doubt, see the very real impact of the growth in trade in services in full flight – new hotels are opening up, excellent restaurants and new business opportunities abound. For us, in a very practical way, the tourism sector continues to contribute in a robust way to the national economy.
The Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belize and Chairman of the COTED
Hon Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Coordinator of the Ministerial Negotiators
The Hon Anthony Hylton, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica – Our Host Minister
Other Distinguished Ministers
Director-General of the CRNM
Other Senior Officials of Member States and of Regional Organisations
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the announcement by the World Bank of 30 January 2007 that its Board of Executive Directors had discussed a new Interim Strategy for Haiti which projects financial assistance of up to US$82 million in grants over the next 18 months to support Haiti’s development agenda as well as two grants for a total of US$28 million to support economic governance reform (US$23 million) and water and sanitation in rural areas (US$5 million).
It is with deep regret that I have learnt of the passing of veteran Guyanese journalist, Mr. Cecil Griffith A.A.
As a journalist with the then Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and later, the Voice of America, Mr. Griffith, in his heyday, was one of the tenacious regional journalists who covered the CARICOM ‘beat’. His relinquishing of the beat years ago left a void in the coverage of CARICOM issues, and his unmistakable dry wit and candour were noticeably absent, particularly at fora held at the Secretariat.
The Single Domestic Space comprising 10 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be inaugurated today. The Single Domestic Space was created to meet the challenges of Cricket World Cup 2007 which the Caribbean will host from March 4 to April 28. The Caribbean is the smallest region to host such a mega-event.
To mark the historic occasion, CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Edwin Carrington has issued the following statement_
My friends of the Caribbean Community,
Today is an historic day for us as we inaugurate the CARICOM Single Domestic Space (SDS).
The Single Domestic Space comprising 10 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be inaugurated today. The Single Domestic Space was created to meet the challenges of Cricket World Cup 2007 which the Caribbean will host from March 4 to April 28. The Caribbean is the smallest region to host such a mega-event.
To mark the historic occasion, CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Edwin Carrington has issued the following statement_
My friends of the Caribbean Community,
1. The Fourth General Meeting between the United Nations system and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and its associated institutions was convened at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana during 25-26 January 2007. The UN delegation was led by the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The delegation of the Caribbean Community was led by Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Deputy Secretary-General.