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CARICOM GOODWILL MISSION REASSURES HAITI OF ITS PLACE IN THE COMMUNITY
The CARICOM Goodwill Mission to Haiti, led by Dr. Kenny D. Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia and Chairman of CARICOM, provided, according to Secretary-General Mr. Edwin Carrington, a unique opportunity for CARICOM to obtain a deeper appreciation of the Haitian political climate. This was critical, he said, given the negotiations being undertaken for the exercise by Haiti of its…
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CHAIRMAN AND SG ON CARICOM GOODWILL MISSION TO HAITI
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman Dr the Hon. Kenny D. Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia undertakes a Goodwill Mission to Haiti 7-9 December 1998. He will be accompanied by Secretary-General Mr. Edwin Carrington. The Chairman’s Goodwill Mission to Haiti comes as a result of a decision by the Bureau of Heads of Government at its meeting in Grenada on…
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SG HEADS SESSION AT MIAMI CONFERENCE
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General Mr Edwin Carrington will preside over a plenary session at the Annual Miami Conference on the Caribbean and Latin America 1998 entitled “Europe and the Americas Beyond 2000”. The session takes place on Friday December 11, 1998 from 9.00 a.m at the Chopin Room of the Inter-Continental Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA. Feature speaker at…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL LEADS TEAM TO DEMAS FUNERAL
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington will lead the CARICOM Secretariat’s representation at the official funeral for the Hon. William Demas TC, OCC in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Monday, 7 December 1998. Included in the party is Assistant Secretary-General, Regional Trade and Economic Integration, Mr Byron Blake and three officers who worked closely with Mr Demas during his…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AID
Over the past decade, the continuing increase in the incidence and prevalence of the HIV infection and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) has been the cause of increasing concern to the Caribbean population . The youth of our Region are not only experiencing increasing morbidity but significant mortality from this and the theme: “Youth: A Force for…
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BOOKS OF CONDOLENCE FOR FORMER CARICOM SECRETARIES-GENERAL
As a mark of respect for the death of former Secretaries-General the Hon. William Demas TC, OCC and Dr Kurleigh King, GCM, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will open Books of Condolence for signing on Wednesday December 2, 1998 at its Headquarters at the Bank of Guyana Building. The books will be open from 10 a.m to 4 p.m on…
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STATEMENT BY THE RT. HON. P.J. PATTERSON, PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA, ON THE PASSING OF THE LATE HON. WILLIAM DEMAS, O.C.C.
All Jamaica and the Caribbean mourn the passing of Honourable William Demas, O.C.C., on Saturday last in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The late William Demas had already reached the highest echelons of official service in Trinidad and Tobago, when he embarked on the wider mission of the drive for Caribbean integration. He was at one and the same time a…
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HON. WILLIAM DEMAS, OCC
It is with a sense of deep loss that the Caribbean Community awoke yesterday to the news that the Hon. William G. Demas, OCC – former Secretary-General of CARICOM – died on Saturday, 28 November. This follows news of the death, some 48 hrs earlier of another former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Dr. Kurleigh King of Barbados. Mr.Demas who…
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Attached is the statement issued by Dr. The Hon. Kenny D. Anthony, Chairman of CARICOM following on the death of Dr. Kurleigh King, former Secretary-General of CARICOM.
The Caribbean Community has learned with great sadness of the recent death of former Secretary-General of CARICOM, Dr. Kurleigh King of Barbados. Dr. King was Secretary-General of CARICOM from 1979-1983. He assumed the position of Secretary-General at a particularly difficult period in the life of the integration movement including a two-year hiatus in the filling of that post. His tenure…
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Press Statement issued on conclusion of the Fifth Meeting of The CARICOM-Cuba Joint Commission, 18-19 November 1998, Georgetown, Guyana
The Fifth Meeting of the CARICOM-Cuba Joint Commission chaired by Mr. Edwin Carrington, the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, and the Honourable Ricardo Cabrisas, Minister of Foreign Trade of Cuba, was held 18-19 November, 1998 in Georgetown, Guyana. The Meeting noted the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Mitch on the Central American Republics. They expressed the solidarity of the Region…
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