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CANCUN SUMMIT COLLAPSES : GLOBAL TRADE AGENDA ‘UNSETTLED’ CARIBBEAN REGIONAL NEGOTIATING MACHINERY
The Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference came to an end in Cancún, Mexico, September 14. However, the ‘endgame’ was not the result WTO members had hoped for. The Cancún summit closed with no consensus on key items on its agenda. Members failed to bridge their differences. Divisions amongst members proved too deep. “There were fundamental differences over key…
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CARIBBEAN COMMISSION ON HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT (CCHD) LAUNCHED
The Caribbean Commission on Health and Development (CCHD) was launched on Monday, 22 September 2003, in Washington DC. United States. The goal of the CCHD is to give substance to the 2001 Nassau Declaration The Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region. In this regard, the Commission will be responsible for providing the guidelines for action to…
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REMARKS BY HON. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF CARICOM AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE TO MARK THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THE OGLE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, 17 SEPTEMBER 2003, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Your Excellency, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo Mrs. Janet Jagan, Former President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Honourable Ministers Leader of the Opposition Members of the Diplomatic Corp Other Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish, first of all, to thank the Board of Directors of the Ogle Airport Incorporation for their kind invitation to me to deliver a…
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REMARKS BY HON. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF CARICOM AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE TO MARK THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THE OGLE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, 17 SEPTEMBER 2003, OGLE, EAST COAST DEMERARA, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Your Excellency, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo Mrs. Janet Jagan, Former President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Honorable Ministers Leader of the Opposition Members of the Diplomatic Corp Other Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish, first of all, to thank the Board of Directors of the Ogle Airport Incorporation for their kind invitation to me to deliver a…
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STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS FROM CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FIFTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION, 10-14 SEPTEMBER 2003, CANCUN, MEXICO
Today the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Cancun, Mexico, at which all Caribbean Countries were present, ended without agreement on the many key issues. Billed as a Conference to advance the Doha Development Round of Trade Negotiations, the Conference collapsed on the key issues for developing countries such as agriculture, non-agricultural market access, small economies and…
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OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE SECOND SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) ON THE REGIONAL NEGOTIATING MACHINERY (RNM), 9 SEPTEMBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Honourable Minister Chief Negotiator of the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Chief Technical Adviser of the RNM Distinguished Delegates Staff of the RNM and the Secretariat Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen Allow me to bid you all welcome to the Second Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development convened to deal with matters being…
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Bilateral discussions on sugar exports
Export of sugar to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago was the subject of separate and successful bilateral discussions between Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana Clement Rohee and his counterparts from the two sister CARICOM countries, K.D Knight of Jamaica and Kenneth Valley of Trinidad and Tobago. These discussions took place during the just concluded Special meeting…
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