Today, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) join our brothers and sisters throughout the world symbolizing our deepest commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. This disease, which is the highest cause of death among our youth between the ages of 15-29, as well as our most productive workforce between 15-44 years, has deep social and economic implications for us all.
Speeches
Over the years I have learnt to take up any offer to hold hands with the media with a hint of trepidation. But this time around I feel safer as the chaperone is the United Nations. And even though not the blue helmets of the peacekeeping force, the United Nations Population Fund grants me enough cover to feel reasonably safe particularly as over the years we have had a close and fruitful co-operation relationship. We look forward to an even closer and more productive relationship in the face of the upcoming restructuring.
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Chairman Mr. Kyle Jackman, Ambassador Lolita Applewaite, Ambassador Irwin La Rocque, Senator Sandra Husbands, Patrick Zephyr, President of Guyana Small Business Association, Delegates from the respective CCARICOM countries, Invited guests and Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the media, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Firstly, I would like to welcome our overseas guests to bright and beautiful Guyana and to invite them to visit our resorts. |
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Your Excellency Mr. Charles Court Today I am deeply honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Court and to receive the Credentials accrediting him as Canada’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). |
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Mr. Chairman Honourable Ministers Distinguished Delegates Representatives of the University of the West Indies and Students of the Institute of International Relations Staff of the Secretariat Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen
It is once again my privilege and pleasure as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community to welcome you all with a few brief remarks to a meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. |
Theme: 30 years of Progress_ The COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGE TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
Salutations
In an age of instant gratification and built-in redundancy, the celebration of a thirty-year anniversary, even in a marriage, is becoming very rare. So it is with great pleasure that I extend hearty congratulations to Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) on achieving this milestone with the Miami Conference on the Caribbean Basin.
I would normally start by saying that it is a pleasure for me to be here today; however, there is nothing pleasurable about the topic that brings us here today. For it must concern us that the number of HIV infected persons in the Caribbean is larger than the entire population of Barbados; we cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that the number of new HIV infections occurring in the Caribbean last year bordered on the entire population of St.
Your Excellency, Mr. David Robinson, Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Assistant Secretary-General, Other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen
It is with distinct pleasure that I welcome you most warmly, Ambassador, to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community. Here you will find among our staff what can almost be termed a microcosm of the fifteen-member CARICOM regional organisation.
Prime Minister of St Lucia Dr The Hon Kenny Anthony
Hon Rafael Dezcallar, Under-Secretary for Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain
The Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
H.E. Jesus Silva and other members of the Diplomatic corps
The Honourable Derek Walcott, Noble Laureate
Honourable Rex Nettleford
Specially invited guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
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Honourable Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce of Guyana, Manniram Prashad; Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite; our Chairman for this Roundtable; Madame President of the Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Senator Sandra Husbands of Barbados; Other Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to this our Second Roundtable on Small and Medium Enterprises being held here at our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Headquarters. |