Community Council of Ministers
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2025 presents CARICOM with opportunity to renew commitment to economic growth, expansion – Chair of 54th Meeting of Community Council of Ministers
The Hon. Kerrie D. Symmonds, M.P., Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Senior Minister coordinating the Productive Sectors of Barbados, chaired the 54th Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers on Thursday, 16 January 2025. Please read his remarks below: Colleague Ministers and your delegations, Secretary-General Barnett, Deputy Secretary-General Alexis, Associate Members, CARICOM Secretariat officials; colleagues representing CARICOM…
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‘Our gains so far should serve as a source of confidence’ – CARICOM SG at 54th Community Council Meeting
Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, addressed the opening of the 54th Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers on Thursday, 16 January 2025. Please read the Secretary-General’s remarks below: Honourable Kerrie D. Symmonds, M.P., Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, Other Honourable Ministers and Other Heads of Delegation; Members of the Executive Management Committee and Other Staff…
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Brief Opening Remarks to the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers by the Hon. Carl B. Greenidge, Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs , Guyana
Secretary General Colleague Ministers and other Heads of Delegations; Distinguished Delegates; Representatives of the Media; Ladies and Gentlemen Allow me, as Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers, the second highest organ in the Community, to commence in the customary manner by extending a warm welcome to all, those of you here in Guyana and those joining the meeting via…
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Remarks by Senator the Hon. Camillo Gonsalves, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Commerce and Information Technology of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers at the Thirty-Third Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, 31 January, 2014 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Georgetown, Guyana
I am honoured to be here at the CARICOM headquarters in Guyana, and doubly so to chair this, the 33rd meeting of the Community Council of Ministers. I am especially grateful for the presence of so many esteemed Ministers of Foreign Affairs at this meeting. While travel between and among CARICOM states – in the best of times – can…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At The THIRTY-THIRD Meeting of the COMMUNITY Council of Ministers
Welcome you all to this meeting of the Community Council and in so doing extend a special welcome to our chairman Senator the Honourable Camillo Gonsalves who is attending his first meeting and is immediately thrust into the leadership role. Minister in congratulating you on your assumption of the chair, I do so in the full knowledge that this Council…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 7 FEBRUARY 2012, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my pleasure to welcome you all to this 29th Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council of Ministers. I extend a particularly warm welcome to the Ministers of Jamaica and Saint Lucia who are attending their first meeting of this, the second highest Organ of our Community. This Council is meeting at…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 7 FEBRUARY 2012, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my pleasure to welcome you all to this 29th Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council of Ministers. I extend a particularly warm welcome to the Ministers of Jamaica and Saint Lucia who are attending their first meeting of this, the second highest Organ of our Community. This Council is meeting at…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 7 FEBRUARY 2012, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my pleasure to welcome you all to this 29th Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council of Ministers. I extend a particularly warm welcome to the Ministers of Jamaica and Saint Lucia who are attending their first meeting of this, the second highest Organ of our Community. This Council is meeting at…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTY-THIRD MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 02 FEBRUARY 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman – the Honourable Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Attorney General of Belize Other Honourable Ministers Your Excellencies Ambassadors to the Caribbean Community Deputy Secretary-General and other members of the Executive Management of the CARICOM Secretariat Distinguished Delegates Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I welcome…
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Opening Statement By Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-general, Human And Social Development, Caribbean Community Secretariat, At The Seventh Meeting Of The Council Of Ministers Responsible For National Security And Law Enforcement (CONSLE), 4 Novembe
Salutations It is my pleasure to chair this opening session of the Seventh Meeting of the Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE). I am sure that you will have no reservation endorsing my request for this CONSLE to join President Bharrat Jagdeo of the Republic of Guyana, the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community and other CARICOM leaders in…
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