Mr Chairman;
Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados;
Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning, Honourable Minister of Finance and Planning, Grenada;
Other Ministers of Finance and Planning;
Other Ministers;
Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations;
Representatives of the Private Sector;
Distinguished Delegates;
Staff of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community;
Members of the Media;
Ladies and Gentlemen
COFAP
The Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) will be looking at a set of measures for full implementation of Protocol II, which involves clearing the way for 'hassle-free' movement of capital, rights of establishment and the provision of services within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). This will be the high point in the deliberations of the COFAP in its Fifth Meeting in Grenada tomorrow, 6 September 2001.
 Mr. Chairman and Host Minister, Hon. Ralph Fonseca
Rt. Hon. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis
Regional Ministers
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Representatives of International and Regional Organisations
Distinguished Guests
Friends of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Jamaica, on Tuesday at the Second Special Meeting of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP), joined Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago in making an initial pledge to the regional Development Fund. Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago had made initial pledges last December at the First Special Meeting of COFAP.