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CARICOM/CARIFORUM, GOVERNMENT OF ITALY AND FAO SIGN FOOD SECURITY PROJECT
The Caribbean Community/CARIFORUM, the Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed a US$5 million Food Security Project in Milan on 21 March 2003. The Project is Italy's response to a US$26.2 million programme submitted by CARICOM/CARIFORUM to a Meeting on Food Security at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC in November last year. Food…
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WELCOME BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MRS. HAZEL MANNING, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 31 MARCH 2003, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
I am delighted to welcome all of you who have honoured the invitation to this 6th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development. Your presence here, is fitting testimony to your commitment to the urgent need for us to work harmoniously together in facing the challenges of Human and Social Development, as they relate to education at…
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EDUCATION FOCUS AT COHSOD MEETING
The Sixth Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, 31 March with a focus on Education. The two-day meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre to be presided over by the Hon. Walter Sandriman, Suriname’s Minister of Education and…
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CRITICAL COLLEGE OF NEGOTIATORS MEETING IN JAMAICA
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – A College of Negotiators Meeting will be convened in Kingston, Jamaica from March 31 to April 1, 2003. The session will finalize CARICOM’s preparation for the 13th Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiation Committee (TNC) Meeting in Puebla, Mexico from April 8 to 11. The College comprises Lead and Alternate Lead Negotiators representing…
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CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE : VIEWPOINT BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AIRED ON VOICE OF GUYANA, MONDAY, 24 MARCH 2003
The question has been asked sometimes why do we need a Caribbean Court of Justice. The short and simple response is that without it the CARICOM Single Market and Economy will certainly not function effectively. For it is inevitable that in the cut and thrust of the commercial and economic life involving trade in goods, in services, trans-community investment and…
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ADDRESS BY THE MOST HON. P.J. PATTERSON, PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA AND OUTGOING CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) TO THE FIFTEENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 25 MARCH 2004, BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
Mr. Chairman, Colleague Heads of State and Government, Honourable Ministers, Secretary General of CARICOM, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, Introduction Let me first express appreciation to the Government and people of St. Kitts/Nevis for so graciously accepting to host this important session of Conference at short notice, for the excellent arrangements and for the kind hospitality extended to us all. Prime…
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THE CARIBBEAN’S CREATIVE DIVERSITY : THE DEFINING POINT OF THE REGION’S HISTORY – LECTURE DELIVERED BY PROF. REX NETTLEFORD, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, 21 MARCH 2003, UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA, GUYANA SECOND LECTURE IN THE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES COMMEMORATING THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
An appreciation of the history of this region is critical to a fuller understanding of contemporary realities and future challenges. For the Caribbean shares in the great drama of the Americas of which it is an integral part, whereby new societies are shaped, new and delicately tuned sensibilities are honed, and appropriate designs for social living are crafted through the…
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Technical Consultation On Services
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) is convening a Technical Consultation on Services to be held in Nassau, Bahamas from March 24 to 25. The Technical Consultation will be followed by a meeting of the CARICOM Working Group on Services Negotiations from March 25 to 26. The Technical Consultation will assist trade officials in formulating regional…
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CARICOM AND COSTA RICA INITIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
After three rounds of negotiations CARICOM and Costa Rica concluded a Free Trade Agreement which holds the promise of significantly increasing trade between thirteen CARICOM countries and Costa Rica, a market of some 4 million persons. The negotiations were concluded in San José, Costa Rica, on 15 March 2003, with the initialling of the Agreement by the CARICOM negotiating spokesperson,…
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CARICOM To Make Government Procurement Offers
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – The CARICOM Region is grappling, for the first time, with the complex but highly significant issue of government procurement in the context of external trade negotiations. In order to guide the Region in this undertaking, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) recently convened the first meeting of the Technical Working Group on Government Procurement (TWG-GP) in…
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