CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington greets H.E. Runaldo Venetiaan, President of Suriname as he arrives for the opening of the CARICOM Youth Forum.  President Venetiaan is CARICOM Head of Government with responsibility for Youth, Culture, Sport and Gender

Antigua and Barbuda's CARICOM Youth Ambassador, Cleveroy Thomas rehearses the lyrics of a new song titled “You” with Haiti's youth representative, Junior Mercier

Youth Leaders, Ministers and CCS staff getting down to business at the Regional Youth Forum, Paramaribo, Suriname 28 January 2010

CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington shares a light moment with  Jamaica's Director of Youth Robertha Brown-Ellis (centre), and Dr Heather Johnson, DPM, Youth Development (r) , CARICOM Secretariat

Let us proceed with caution," the CARICOM Secretary-General seems to be telling Prof. Barry Chevannes, co-Chair of the CCYD and Dr.Heather Johnson, Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development, CARICOM Secretariat

CARICOM Secretary-General, Carrington greets youth commissioners Kyle deFreitas (L) and Ravi Lutchman while Programme Manager, Youth Development, Heather Johnson looks on

 

 

 

 

 

Secretary-General and President Venetiaan seem to be in deep contemplation.

President of the Youth Parliament of Suriname, Dhiradj Soekhai (2nd from left) doing compere duties at the Regional Youth Forum. Seated to his left: CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington; to his right, Suriname’s President Runaldo Venetiaan, Asst. Secretary-General Dr Edward Greene and Youth Commissioner, Tamien Beckford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haiti's Junior Mercier presents copies of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) report to President Runaldo Venetiaan who hands a copy over to the Chairman of CARICOM, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, 29 January 2010, Paramaribo, Suriname.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Bureau of CARICOM Heads of Government: (L-R) HE Bharrat Jagdeo, Immediate Past Chair of Conference; Hon Roosevelt Skerrit, Chairman of Conference; HE Edwin Carrington, CARICOM Secretary -General.

Regional youth presenting a dramatic performance of the finding of the CCYD report

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regional youth presenting a dramatic performance of the finding of the CCYD report