(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A wide cross-section of Belizeans is expected to participate in a Town Hall Meeting Saturday 14 March 2009 at the Sacred Heart Secondary School, San Ignacio, Belize, to discuss the benefits of integration including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM, will lead a delegation to the Town Hall Meeting that will place emphasis on the opportunities available under the CSME and within the Community in general.
Assistant Secretaries-General Dr. Edward Greene, Ambassadors Colin Granderson and Irwin LaRocque; Chef de Cabinet, Ms. Glenda Itiaba; Special Adviser, Single Market and Sectoral Programmes, Ms. Desiree Field-Ridley; and Programme Manager, CSME Unit, Mr. Ivor Carryl will accompany the Secretary-General.
University and secondary school students are among those expected at the Meeting.
The Town Hall Meeting follows the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government which was held at the Radisson Fort George Hotel, Belize City, Belize 12-13 March, and the Fifth Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee Meeting on the CSME.
