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THIRD MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OPENS IN GEORGETOWN
The Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development takes place in Georgetown, Guyana on 13 and 14 January 2000. The Opening Session will begin at 09:30hrs, in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel. CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin W. Carrington will deliver the Opening Remarks. Other remarks will be made by Hon. Henry Jeffrey, Minister of…
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CARIBBEAN STATISTICIANS FOCUS ON POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUSES
Statisticians from Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began a 4-day meeting in Georgetown, Guyana today Monday 10th January, 2000. High on the agenda at this the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians are population and housing censuses matters, social and economic statistics relating to matters such as gender, external trade, and the Caribbean Statistical Training…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL’S NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE 2000 : CHANGES, CHALLENGES, RESPONSE.
Today’s dawning of the year 2000 puts us on the very doorstep of the much- heralded 21st Century and Third Millennium. Not so long ago, these milestones in time were seen as distant landmarks in man’s progress. Today, they are all but here and so are many of the futuristic fantasies associated with the 21st Century. But many of these…
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MONTSERRAT RECEIVES CARICOM GIFT OF LOVE
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, the Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago presented “a CARICOM gift of love” to the people of Montserrat on Wednesday 29 December 1999. In a ceremony at Lookout in the north of the island, attended by His Excellency the Governor of Montserrat, Anthony Abbott, Chief Minister David Brandt and members of his…
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CARICOM VILLAGE – THE IDEAL OF INTEGRATION
Chief Minister of Montserrat, the Hon. David Brandt described his island’s CARICOM Village as a “monument to CARICOM and the ideal of integration.” The Chief Minister was speaking on Wednesday at the official handing-over ceremony of the first phase of the Village comprising of 15 three-bedroom units at Lookout in the North of the island. The Chairman of CARICOM, the…
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STATEMENT BY HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN SEA
The Caribbean Community has been advised that yet another shipment of hazardous waste is soon to leave Europe for Japan. Heads of Government once again reiterate their unwavering opposition and that of the people of the Region to the choice of the Caribbean Sea as the preferred route for the transhipment of highly toxic nuclear materials. The expressed position adopted…
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CHAIRMAN HANDS OVER CARICOM VILLAGE IN MONTSERRAT
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, the Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago will on Wednesday December 29, 1999 officially hand over 15 houses to the people of Montserrat. This comprises the first phase of the CARICOM Village being built by the Caribbean Community for the residents of the volcano-stricken Community Member State. The Hon. David Brandt, Chief…
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PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY CARICOM FACILITATOR AT PRESS CONFERENCE HOSTED BY CARICOM FACILITATOR AND MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL DIALOGUE ON FRIDAY, 17 DECEMBER 1999
1. This is the last report on the Political Dialogue for 1999. It covers the period from 14 June 1999 to the present. 2. You will recall that I have issued Press Statements in relation to the work of the Dialogue on 14 June 1999 and on 3 September 1999. My previous Statements have indicated that the Dialogue resumed on…
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STATEMENT BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER OF SAINT LUCIA, ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN GUYANA
Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Kenny D. Anthony in his capacity as CARICOM Head of Government with responsibility for spearheading CARICOM’s support to the process of political normalisation in Guyana, today held discussions with CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington in Castries Saint Lucia, on the status of implementation of the Herdmanston Accord and the Saint Lucia Statement – the two agreements…
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CMO CHIEF RETIRES. NEW CHIEF NAMED
The CARICOM Secretariat today announced the retirement at the end of 1999 of Mr Cyril Egbert Berridge, long-serving Coordinating Director of the Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO). The Caribbean Meteorological Organization, with headquarters in Trinidad, is one of the oldest Caribbean institutions. It originated out of the old British Caribbean Meteorological Service, which was established in 1951. After the break-up of…
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