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Caribbean Export Drives Market Intelligence to Increase Exports
The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has launched their Market Intelligence Training Workshop road show across CARIFORUM working in partnership with national Business Support Organisations (BSOs) to build capacity for export within the regions private sector. The concept of market intelligence is relatively new to the CARIFORUM Region. Firms have been operating on a basis of preferential treatment or…
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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Moving closer to full implementation
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – It was labelled a “John Doe” summons and it sought information about American taxpayers with offshore accounts at CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank (FCIB) and across the rest of the Caribbean. And when it was served on FCIB in Barbados, bankers across North America, Europe and the Caribbean took note. That’s because it sent a strong…
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Regional HIV Consultation identifies steps to eliminate stigma and discrimination
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After two days of dialogue, more than 75 delegates, representing Caribbean countries, regional institutions and development partners of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), arrived at approximately 15 actionable recommendations aimed at ending HIV-related stigma and discrimination over the next three to five years. The regional dialogue benefited from the charge…
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Statement by Ambassador Claes Hammar, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the Occasion of the Presentation of Credentials to Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of CARICOM
It is a great honour for me to present today, as the first time ever for Sweden, my credentials as Plenipotentiary Representative of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Mr. Carl Bildt. Although I and my predecessors have been accredited to the individual Member States of CARICOM, we…
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New Swedish Ambassador to CARICOM sees his appointment as historic
The newly accredited Ambassador of Sweden to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Claes Hammar, has described the formalisation of his country’s ties with the Community as an historic and significant step. Following meetings with Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and other Nordic countries and CARICOM Foreign Ministers in the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the Ambassador…
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CARICOM indebted to Professor Girvan – CARICOM Secretary-General
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The death of Professor Norman Girvan, an “unstinting advocate for Caribbean integration”, has left a void in the intellectual capital of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said Friday. In a tribute, Ambassador LaRocque said that the Community was indebted to Professor Girvan for his prolific writings and intellectual contribution on the…
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CARICOM accredits first Swedish Ambassador
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) While Sweden has forged diplomatic relations with countries within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) through the establishment of honorary consulates in each CARICOM Member State and by signing of Tax Information Exchange Agreements with eight of them, it had no such ties with the regional bloc. At the Georgetown, Guyana Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion Of The Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Claes Hammar Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) of SWEDEN To The Caribbean Community 11 APRIL 2014
Excellency, I wish to welcome you to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Community as you present your Letters of Credence as the first Plenipotentiary Representative of Sweden. Your accreditation comes after years of building relations with members of the Community through the establishment of honorary consulates in each CARICOM Member State and the signing of Tax Information Exchange Agreements with…
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STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER HON. ALDEN MCLAUGHLIN JR, MBE, JP ON THE PASSING OF ARTHUR NAPOLEON RAYMON
Madam Speaker, it is with a deep sense of sorrow that I rise to briefly pay tribute to the life of a true Caribbean luminary, leader and past President and Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, better known throughout the region as ANR Robinson who departed this life on 9th April at the…
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PM Douglas: “ANR Robinson showed mettle as leader and man during attempted coup”
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, APRIL 10TH 2014 (CUOPM) – Former President and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, A.N.R. Robinson was not only committed and determined but also possessed great personal courage. St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas in paying tribute to the late Trinidad and Tobago leader who died earlier this week noted…
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