St Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname H.E. Mr. Ellsworth John, Ambassador to CARICOM H.E. Ms. Manorma Soeknandan, (former) Ambassador to CARICOM H.E. Mr. Michael Kerpens, Ambassador at Large, Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Trinidad and Tobago H.E. Mr. Mervyn Assam, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary with responsibility for Trade and Industry British Virgin Islands Ms Sylvia Moses, Director, International Affairs Turks and Caicos Islands Hon. Ricardo Don-Hue Gardiner, Minister of Border Control and Labour. (c) All Participants in National Consultations/or Special Meetings during the period of the national consultations. These included from 15 Member States and 2 Associate Members: Prime Ministers and Cabinets; Leaders of the Opposition; Other Members of Parliament; Representatives of the Private Sector, Employers and Trade Unions; Youth Representatives; Other Civil Society Groups; Representatives of Tertiary Level Institutions; Labour Organisations. (d) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors who mobilized the contribution of young people to the deliberations on the Plan, including through the Youth Online Survey. (e) Respondents to the Telesurvey and the Youth Online Survey, who by their participation allowed the Plan to benefit from the views of a wide cross section of nationals of the Community, who otherwise might not have been heard. (f) Leaders and Representatives of the Regional Institutions, who participated as contributors and drafters of the Plan, from the vantage point of the special expertise of their various Institutions. (g) The Leadership and Technical Officers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, who not only contributed technical information, but gave their views as citizens of the Community. Within this group, special acknowledgement must be given to the Strategic Planning Sub-Group members who were involved in the drafting task and who also collated contributions of other representatives of the Secretariat. (h) The British Department for International Development (DFID), which provided resource support to make the initiative possible and technical advice which informed the progress of the project. (i) The Change Facilitation Team which had the responsibility for designing and implementing the planning process and collating the inputs from all sources to arrive at the Strategic Plan. (j) All CARICOM Nationals who commit to contribute to Plan implementation, and who will be beneficiaries of such implementation. To Caribbean unity, resilience and prosperity. vii