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CARISEC, UWI SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
The CARICOM Secretariat and the University of the West Indies (UWI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering greater co-operation between the two Institutions. CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington signed on behalf of the Secretariat and Principal of UWI’s Mona Campus, Professor Kenneth Hall signed on behalf of the University at a ceremony on Tuesday 7 December 1999,…
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STATEMENT BY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, ON THE DEATH OF SIR CONRAD HUNTE
The Caribbean Community was stunned on Friday by the news that Sir Conrad Cleophas Hunte had died. The sudden nature of his passing in far away Sydney, Australia was all the more shocking coming so soon after the death of his legendary countryman Malcolm Marshall. His death, at 67, is especially untimely given his relatively recent return to the Region…
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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 Jamaica on 6 December 1999. 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 its third meeting as the Committee discusses the instruments for…
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STATEMENT BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1, 1999
Today, World AIDS Day, we focus on one of the most pressing issues of concern in the Caribbean and the wider world: the increasing number of persons infected with the deadly virus HIV/AIDS. This year’s theme of “Listen, Learn, and Live” calls on all of us to listen to children and young people, learn from one another about respect, participation,…
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CARICOM COMMUNITY MOURNS PASSING OF PROFESSOR DOUGLAS HALL
The Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has learnt with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Douglas Hall, Professor of History at the University of the West Indies. Professor Hall, a Jamaican, was a distinguished Historian at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies and many of the Secretariat’s staff, including the Secretary-General had the good…
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF SADC AND CARICOM HOLD CONSULTATIONS
The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, Dr. Kaire Mbuende, held consultations with the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington, in Gaborone, Botswana, on 16 November 1999. The Chief Executives were accompanied by their Senior Officials. The consultations were held in the context of the follow-up to the first meeting between the Ministers of…
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CARICOM APPLAUDS FAO INITIATIVE “TELEFOOD ‘99” IN JAMAICA
Jamaica will host, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Third Annual Telefood Concert on November 28, 1999. This unique event, born out of the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, is to mobilise solidarity for the fight against hunger and raise funds to support grassroots projects in developing countries. It is being staged for the first time in…
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CARICOM LOOKS TO DEEPEN CO-OPERATION WITH LATIN AMERICA
His Excellency the President of Suriname, Jules Wijdenbosch told the IX Ibero-American Summit in Havana, Cuba that the Caribbean Community looked forward to developing and strengthening deeper relations with the Ibero-American countries. President Wijdenbosch, a member of the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was mandated by CARICOM Leaders at their Seventh Special Meeting in Port of…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON ON THE PASSING OF MR. MALCOLM MARSHALL
The people of the Caribbean Community and the fraternity of cricket lovers everywhere have lost one of their heroes. Malcolm Denzil Marshall was one of the Ambassadors of Sport who with his colleagues in the great West Indies Cricket Team of the nineteen seventies and eighties inspired the deepest admiration and epitomised the highest aspirations of West Indian people everywhere.…
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STATEMENT ON THE INTENDED WITHDRAWAL OF CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE FROM GRENADA AS A PORT OF CALL
The Caribbean Community is deeply disturbed to learn of a decision by Carnival Cruise Line to cease calling at Port St. George’s, Grenada with virtually immediate effect. Carnival is the largest cruise line calling at Grenadian ports, and accounts for approximately half of the cruise passengers to the country. Such a cessation of its cruise activity will therefore create a…
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