(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is the duty of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to provide strategic leadership in health and education in the face of the challenges posed by global crises.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week.
First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts to in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The Seventeenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) which focussed on Education was convened under the theme_ Accelerating the Implementation of the Education Agendaand was held at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown, Guyana on 17-18 November 2008.
In attendance were_
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Seventeenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) opened today (17 November 2008) with a strong consensus that education, the driver of national and regional development is the most critical response to the social and economic global challenges now confronting the Region.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)The Twelfth Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which focussed on Children, was convened at the Guyana International Conference Centre, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana on 17 -19 March, 2008 under the theme, Building a Region Fit for Children.
In attendance were_
Mr. Chairman, H.E. the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community
Honourable Ministers
Distinguished Delegates
Colleagues Representatives from Regional and International Organisations
Staff of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community
Representatives of the Media, to those of you representing youth media
Ladies and Gentlemen
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Edwin Carrington said yesterday, that preparatory work had started for the drafting of a Protocol on Contingent Rights to be accorded to spouses, children and other dependents of persons who exercised the right to move within the framework of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM). Foremost among those, he said were the rights to services such as education and health.
Ministers of Government
Secretary-General
Deputy Secretary-General
Ambassadors
Representatives of Regional and International organizations
Ladies and Gentlemen
I welcome you on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development to this Sixteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD).
This has been a very busy year for the Secretariat and the Community. For our Directorate, there have been some outstanding achievements which include two landmark events_
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Fifteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), the Hon. Anthony Wood, Education Minister of Barbados has reaffirmed his Government’s ongoing commitment to the social and economic integration process in the Caribbean Community.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), ended on Friday, 28 October with wide ranging recommendations for the development of the Region’s youth, particularly in light of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) scheduled to come on stream in January 2006.