Month: February 2013

  • February 19, 2013
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    CARICOM maintains independence in external negotiations

    GEORGETOWN—The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be funding all future negotiations itself, according to Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. She recently informed the 65-seat National Assembly, current negotiations between CARICOM and Canada for a Trade and Development Agreement are being funded by the region. Rodrigues-Birkett’s statement came in the form of a written response to a series of questions by…

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  • February 19, 2013
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    EDITORIAL: Awaiting CARICOM decisions after Haiti meeting

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – With at least one third of the Caribbean Community’s 15 Heads of Government absent from the current two-day Inter-Sessional Meeting in Haiti, it would be a welcome surprise if any new initiative of significance on the way forward for the regional economic integration movement is included in the communiqué to be released this evening. Prior to yesterday’s…

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  • February 19, 2013
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    PM Spencer attends CARICOM meeting in Haiti

    ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has joined other Caricom leaders at the 24th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 18-19. During the deliberations, Prime Minister Spencer will take the opportunity to brief his colleagues over the recent authorisation from the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body.…

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  • February 19, 2013
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    Caribbean leaders ask U.S. to help with arms control

    PORT-AU-PRINCE — The arms control debate arrived in Haiti on Monday as members of a regional trade bloc sought the United States’ help in ensuring that an international treaty aimed at regulating the $70 billion global arms trade includes a provision for small arms. The issue was among several vexing crime and security concerns raised during a closed-door discussion with…

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  • February 19, 2013
    769

    Trinidad PM wants regional leaders to adopt drastic action to deal with crime

    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Monday warned regional leaders that they need to adopt “urgent and drastic action” to deal with the scourge of transnational crime in the Caribbean. Addressing the leaders at the 24th intersessional summit here, Persad Bissessar, who has lead responsibility for security within the quasi Caribbean Community…

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  • February 19, 2013
    806

    Crime costing $200m a year

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago loses more than $200 million in tourism revenue a year because of crime, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday. Persad-Bissessar made the statement as she opened discussions at Caricom's Inter-Sessional meeting on strengthening the regional crime and security agenda and architecture in Haiti. Persad-Bissessar is responsible for Crime and Security in the…

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  • February 19, 2013
    761

    LaRocque wants removal of challenges to CARICOM observing 40th anniversary

    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICCOM) leaders began a historic summit here on Monday with CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque indicating there is a need to stave off existing challenges to the regional integration movement that is observing its 40th anniversary. LaRocque told regional leaders that there can be no greater indicator, “symbolic and substantive, that Haiti…

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  • February 19, 2013
    328

    SEE HAITI AS “AN OPPORTUNITY” FOR THE REGION – PRESIDENT MICHEL MARTELLY AT INTERESSIONAL OPENING

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “Haiti should be seen and treated as an opportunity. Despite its difficulties, it represents a good opportunity for the Region, an opportunity for each CARICOM country,” His Excellency Michel Martelly, President of Haiti and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) told the Region on Monday. Delivering the…

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  • February 19, 2013
    312

    SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR’ – HAITIAN PRESIDENT BEMOANS LACK OF DEDICATED TRANSPORT SYSTEM

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Michel Martelly, President of Haiti and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has placed the lack of a dedicated transport system at the heart of the problems related to the free movement of persons and goods. Delivering the feature address at the Opening Ceremony of…

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  • February 19, 2013
    544

    Take `hard look’ at institutions – Prime Minister Anthony

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Dr. the Hon Kenny Anthony, wants the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to take a “hard look” at the Institutions that it has created. In remarks at the historic, two-day Twenty-Fourth Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Prime Minister Anthony expressed full support…

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