(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is an honour and a privilege for me to recognize and celebrate the women and girls of the Caribbean Community on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2012, with this statement.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my privilege and honour to welcome you all to the Twenty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.
​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to address you, given the crossroads at which the Caribbean Community finds itself. As clichéd as this sounds, the fact is we are at a crucial juncture in our integration arrangements.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to address you, given the crossroads at which the Caribbean Community finds itself. As clichéd as this sounds, the fact is we are at a crucial juncture in our integration arrangements.
​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As Secretary-General of CARICOM, it is with great pleasure that I receive today your Letters of Credence, accrediting you as the new Plenipotentiary Representative of the European Union (EU), one of the most valuable International Development Partners of the Caribbean Community.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) As Secretary-General of CARICOM, it is with great pleasure that I receive today your Letters of Credence, accrediting you as the new Plenipotentiary Representative of the European Union (EU), one of the most valuable International Development Partners of the Caribbean Community.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque deemed the Surinamese Youth programmes as a regional Best Practice.
On the second day of his official visit to Suriname, the Secretary-General was brought up to date on the activities and plans of Surinamese youth and was particularly impressed by the exciting programmes outlined to him by the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYA) at a meeting in Paramaribo on Tuesday 13 December.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) We of the Caribbean Community and Cuba meet on this auspicious day, 8 December 2011, which has been designated CARICOM-Cuba Day. Thirty-nine years ago on this date, the leaders of Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago took the bold step of formally recognising the Republic of Cuba, at a time when most of the countries in the hemisphere did not.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday 8 December, CARICOM-Cuba Day.
All independent Member States of the Community will be represented with ten at the level of Head of Government. The Cuban delegation will be led the President, His Excellency Raoul Castro Ruz.
​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) I would like to thank the Dominican Association of Exporters (ADOEXPO) for inviting me to address this gathering - my first engagement in the Dominican Republic as Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). I also address you in my capacity as the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM), a co-operation grouping that includes the Dominican Republic.