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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SURINAME DRS. R.R. VENETIAAN IN THE EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON THE OCCASION OF 135 YEARS OF PARLIAMENT OF SURINAME ON MAY 8, 2001
Mr. Speaker, Members of the National Assembly, Allow me to also extend a special greeting to your special guests in this extraordinary public session. Excellency Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of CARICOM, and CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington. Mr. Speaker, Pausing at the milestone of “One Hundred and Thirty-Five Years Parliament of Suriname” takes us far back into…
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CARICOM’S CHAIRMAN LEADS DELEGATION TO SURINAME
A delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is currently in Suriname holding consultations with officials of the Government, the Labour Movement and the business sector. Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, Barbados Prime Minister, Mr. Owen Arthur, is leading the delegation which traveled to the CARICOM Member State on 6 May 2001. He is accompanied by…
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WINNERS SELECTED IN CARICOM BOOK COVER DESIGN COMPETITION
Mr Andrew Davies, 23, a national of Jamaica, residing in Barbados, has captured the top prize in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Book Cover Design competition. Mr Davies’ entry was selected from among more than 200 entries in the competition to design the cover of a book about CARICOM entitled “Our Caribbean Community”. The competition, for Caribbean Community nationals between…
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CARICOM SG AND TEAM COMPLETE CCJ PUBLIC EDUCATION ACTIVITIES IN JAMAICA
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Mr Edwin Carrington, has wrapped up a one-week tour of Jamaica where he spoke to wide ranging audiences on a range of issues related to the Caribbean Court of Justice. The week of public education activities on the Court ran from 24-30 April 2001. Mr. Carrington emphasised that the Court is important in the Region's…
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NEW IN-HOUSE TRAINING SERVICE FOR CARICOM SECRETARIAT STAFF
Staff of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat are benefitting from a new in-house training facility, the Learning Resource Centre (LRC), which is intended to strengthen the capability of the executive arm of the Caribbean Community. The implementation of the project was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) within the Extension of the Caribbean Regional Institutional Strengthening Project (CRISP).…
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YOUTH IN THE REGIONAL INTEGRATION MOVEMENT
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is moving closer to having an inter-sectoral agenda for youth in the regional integration movement. A draft regional strategy for youth development, which is intended to engage them in promoting their own cause headlines the agenda for a meeting of CARICOM Directors of Youth scheduled for 7-9 May in Trinidad and Tobago. The Port-of-Spain meeting is…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL IN JAMAICA FOR CCJ PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Mr Edwin Carrington, has re-emphasised that establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is imperative to the creation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The Secretary-General, who is in Jamaica for a week long series of public education programmes, 24-30 April 2001 to build public awareness of the CCJ, stressed that dialogue…
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MESSAGE FROM THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION ON THE FIRST WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY – APRIL 26, 2001
Creating the Future Today – this is the theme of the first World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2001. Four words that underscore the importance of innovators and artists to the development and growth of societies everywhere. We owe the inventions, designs and works of art that ease our workload, improve our living conditions and enrich and beautify our…
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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICIAL MEETS CARICOM DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
Mr. Richard Wilkinson, The Director for the Americas of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the United Kingdom, and H.E. Mr. Richard Glover, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to Guyana, on 25 April, 2001 paid a courtesy call on Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr. Carla Barnett. During the visit, the officials discussed the role and functions…
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“CREATING PROSPERITY” : SPEECH BY HON. LESTER B. BIRD, PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, AT THE SECOND PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr. Chairman, each of us is here as a representative of people. Some may be called Canadians, others Antiguans, yet others Americans. They are all people with basic aspirations to live a life in freedom, to raise their children, to feed them properly, give them education, good housing and health care. Our goal here should not be to seek an…
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