FIRST

Message

HE Kamalesh Sharma

Secretary General of the Commonwealth

Message

HE Abdou Diouf

Secretary General of La Francophonie

Scaling the Fifth Summit

Ambassador Luis Alberto Rodriguez

National Coordinator, Secretarial for CHOGM 2009

Message

Dr Mohan Kaul

Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Business Council

A time for unity of purpose

Hon Patrick Manning

Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Rebalancing the energy portfolio

Senator Hon Conrad Enill

Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, Trinidad and Tobago

The best of both worlds

Senator Hon Mariano Browne

Minister of Trade and Industry, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago: playing a pivotal role

David Renwick

Caribbean Energy Correspondent, FIRST

Petrotrin: T&T"s leading oil producer

Kenneth Allum

President, Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited

NGC: riding the second wave

S Andrew Mc Intosh

President, the national Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited

NIDCO: connecting the country

Kaisha Ince

President, National Infrastructure Development Company Limited

Lake Asphalt: paving the world

A corporate profile of Lake Asphalt

Trinidad"s Raj

Gerard A Besson

Australia and the Commonwealth

Hon Kevin Rudd MP

Prime Minister of Australia

Addressing global issues

HE Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister of the People"s Republic of Bangladesh

Guided by timeless principles

Rt Hon Stephen Harper

Prime Minister of Canada

Shaping the future

HE Demetris Christofias

President of the Republic of Cyprus

Need, not greed

HE Sheikh Professor Alh Dr Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh

President of the Republic of Gambia

Setting higher expectations

HE Professor John Evans Atta Mills

President of Ghana

Message

Hon Bruce Golding

Prime Minister of Jamaica

A new beginning

HE Mohamed Nasheed

President of the Republic of Maldives

A commitment to democracy

Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan

Vice President of the Republic of Maldives

Creating a real economy

Mohamed Rasheed

Minister of Economic Development, Maldives

Adding value to a premium product

Dr Ibrahim Didi

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Maldives

Developing a new kind of tourism

Dr Ahmed Ali Sawad

Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Maldives

A high-flying expansion programme

Mahmood Razee

Minister of Civil Aviation and Communication, Maldives

Maldives: the rights side of life

Ahmed Saleem

President of the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives

Building a tradition of trust

Shahid Ali

Managing Director of the State trading Organisation Plc

Customer-driven focus

Bandhu Ibrahim Saleem

Managing Director, Maldivian

NGOs consolidating democracy

Aiman Rasheed

Transparency Maldives

Furthering economic integration

Hon Dato" Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Hj Abdul Razak

Prime Minister of Malaysia

Towards sustainable democracy

Umaru Yar A"dua, GCFR

President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Partnership begins at home

HE James Alix Michel

President of the Republic of Seychelles

Defending core values

HE Mahinda Rajapaksa

President of Sri Lanka

Opportunities for economic growth

HM King Mswati III

Head of State of the Kingdom of Swaziland

Realising our own potential

HE Yoweri Kaguta Museveni

President of the Republic of Uganda

Sticking to the rules

Syda Bbumba

Minister of Finance, Uganda

Ensuring transparency

Hilary Onek

Minister for Energy

The measure of success

Manubhai Madhvani

Chairman, Madhvani Group

BAT: tailor-made for Uganda

Ricardo Fonesca

Managing Director, British American Tobacco Uganda

Message

Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Copenhagen needn"t cost the earth

Achim Steiner

UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme

Tourism: the future"s green

Luigi Cabrini

Director of Sustainable Development of Tourism, World Trurism Organisation

Change for a sustainable future

Dr Hamadoun Touré

Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union

Fair globalisation: a call to action

Juan Somavia

Director-General, International Labour Organisation

GTC: enabling trust online

David Merkel

Director for External Relations, Global Trust Council

Overturning impunity

Irene Khan

Secretary General, Amnesty International