The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) took a step towards close r cooperation when high level officials from the two regional groupings met in Kingston, Jamaica on 17-18 April, 2000. The Delegations of both CARICOM and SADC included representatives from their respective Member States.
Jamaica
All Jamaica and the Caribbean mourn the passing of Honourable William Demas, O.C.C., on Saturday last in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
The late William Demas had already reached the highest echelons of official service in Trinidad and Tobago, when he embarked on the wider mission of the drive for Caribbean integration.
He was at one and the same time a propeller and an anchor for every meaningful advance in the process of regional integration.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)Â The University of the West Indies will host the Sixth annual workshop for Secondary School Spanish Language teachers drawn from the Caribbean Community Education system starting 10 August 1998 at Mona Campus, Jamaica.
The five-day training programme is geared towards enhancing the teaching skills of Spanish as a foreign language as participants will be exposed to modern teaching methods. The training exercise will be conducted by staff of the Department of Education of the University of Chile.
I have paid a short visit to Guyana as a member of the CARICOM Bureau on the eve of the release of the findings of the Audit Team and in continuation of the efforts of the Community to foster understanding, mutual trust and harmony in this country.
During my visit I held consultative meetings with the various political leaders and other political representatives, private sector leaders, representatives of the trade unions and the religious community as well as media bosses and heads.
These consultations were extremely useful and informative.
(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.