environment

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment opened formally on 17 April 2008 with the acknowledgement that collective action was critical to confronting the environmental challenges that the Region faced.

The link between the environment and the quality of life of the Region’s citizens was also stressed by the speakers at the brief function at the opening of the two-day Meeting at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Government with responsibility for the Environment begin a two-day meeting in Georgetown on Thursday 17 April 2008 aimed at charting a course to curb environmental degradation.

At least nine Ministers will attend the Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The environmental dimension within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), Climate Change and Disaster Management, are high on the agenda of a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment on 17-18 April 2008.

The CARICOM Region should look to breathing much cleaner air and accessing cheaper electricity over the next few years with the execution of the Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP).

A Global Environmental Facility (GEF) grant of US$3.726 million made available through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the most recent addition to the international financial assistance already secured for the Programme.

Mr. John Hamilton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Other officials of the United States Government;
My colleague Ministers from the Caribbean, as well as the Ambassadors and other diplomats from the States of the Caribbean Region.
Ladies and Gentlemen.

The Third Meeting of the Caribbean/United States Joint Committee on Development, Finance and Environmental Issues was convened in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 1999, under the Co-Chairmanship of the Hon. Hilroy Humphreys, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Business Development, Antigua and Barbuda, and Mr. John R. Hamilton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.