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  • February 16, 2000
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    PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF A VISIT TO HAITI BY A CARICOM DELEGATION LED BY SECRETARY-GENERAL MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON

    Following on the decision of CARICOM Heads of Government taken at their Seventh Special Meeting , held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, last October, CARICOM Secretary General, Mr. Edwin Carrington, led a delegation to Haiti and held discussions on the regional grouping’s assistance to that incoming CARICOM Member State in the run-up to its general elections, due on 19 March…

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  • February 15, 2000
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    STANDARDS MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING IN OECS TERRITORIES

    Member States of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are to benefit this year from a project to establish and enhance their standards management capacity. Three OECS States, the Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, are to be brought in line with the regional mandate for standardisation while the other member states…

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  • February 10, 2000
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    AGs MOVE TO FINALISE CARIBBEAN COURT

    Plans for the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) are expected to be further advanced at a meeting in Barbados on 16 February 2000. The meeting will be held at the Grand Barbados Hotel. Attorney General of Barbados, the Hon. David Simmons Q.C, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee on the Caribbean Court of Justice (PrepCom) will preside over…

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  • February 9, 2000
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    STRENGTHENING THE EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CARICOM SECRETARIAT

    Two high level appointments have been made to strengthen the executive management team at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. Ambassador Albert Ramchand Ramdin, a top ranking official of the Republic of Suriname, was appointed Assistant Secretary General, Foreign and Community Relations. Just before his appointment, he served as Coordinator of the Caribbean Ambassadors’ Caucus. Dr. John Edward…

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  • February 8, 2000
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    FINAL TOUCHES TO LAST TWO TREATY REVISION INSTRUMENTS

    The establishment of the legal framework for the functioning of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) looms closer with the final touches being put to the last two instruments amending the Treaty of Chaguaramas. CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington speaking at a press conference today 8 February 2000, said that delegates who attended the just-concluded meeting of the…

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  • February 7, 2000
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    EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED UNDER WAY

    Delegates to the Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) have begun deliberating a number of key “bread and butter” issues pertinent to the well-being of the people of the Region. They will map definitive action in response to a number of challenges facing it, at a two-day meeting which began today, 7 February, 2000 at…

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  • February 3, 2000
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    OFFICIALS FINE-TUNE AGENDA FOR EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED

    A range of matters aimed at quickening the pace of, and strengthening the regional integration process in facing-up to the challenges in the new Century will be covered by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials when they meet in Georgetown on the 4-5 February, 2000 to prepare for the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). The…

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  • February 2, 2000
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    Funding for CARICOM observer mission to Haiti elections

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)/Canada cooperation continues with the signing today Wednesday, 2 February, 2000 of an agreement paving the way for the Regional organisation to receive funding for an electoral observation mission to Haiti in March this year. The agreement for one hundred thousand Canadian dollars was signed by CARICOM Secretary General Mr. Edwin Carrington, and Director General of the…

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  • January 24, 2000
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    CARICOM GETS INTO HIGH GEAR WITH YEAR 2000 ACTIVITIES

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) embarks this week on a busy round of activities of crucial importance to its future development. Officials from the CARICOM Secretariat, including the Secretary-General, Edwin W. Carrington, with representatives of the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) including its Chief Technical Adviser, Sir Alister McIntyre, officials of Member Governments and representatives of the Region’s private sector are in…

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  • January 13, 2000
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    COHSOD URGED TO STEP UP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS

    The Third Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) got underway in Georgetown today 13 January, 2000 amidst optimism by top officials for the speedy implementation of decisions in the hands of this Council. In the context of the Year 2000, and recent fears about “the millennium bug”, the new chairman of COHSOD, Mr. Damian Greaves, Saint…

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