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CEBO PARTICIPANTS FORM BUSINESSES – BEGIN SELLING PRODUCTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Five new companies commenced operations in St. Kitts on Thursday as part of the practical exercise of the Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity (CEBO) training taking place in Sandy Point, St Kitts and Nevis this week. The CEBO workshop is coordinated by the Department of Youth Empowerment in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat.…
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BAHAMAS AMBASSADOR TO CARICOM SAYS THE REGION MUST LOBBY AGAINST BARRIERS TO DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes is by no means happy with the classification of most CARICOM highly-indebted States as “middle income economies,” and has insisted that CARICOM step up its advocacy on the issue as well as other development issues. He told the audience…
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BAHAMAS REAFFIRMS CONFIDENCE IN THE CARICOM SECRETARIAT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Bahamas envoy to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Picewell Forbes has conveyed his Government’s “utmost confidence” in the CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. “I wish to reaffirm my Government’s recognition of the role of the Caribbean Community Secretariat in championing the cause of the…
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CARICOM OBSERVES ENERGY WEEK
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Next week, November 11-17, is CARICOM Energy Week, to be observed under the theme, Sustainable Energy Powering a Green economy. CARICOM Energy Week, first observed last year, was established as an annual event based on a mandate from CARICOM Energy Ministers in 2011 to provide a platform for increased awareness about energy matters, given…
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CARICOM STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH HURRICANE RAVAGED COUNTRIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has signalled the commitment of the Community to provide support where necessary to hurricane ravaged countries of Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba: this, after Hurricane Sandy barrelled a path through the Caribbean on his way to the US, taking lives and leaving billions of dollars of…
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Draft Model Bills focus of EPA Meeting of Legislative Drafters
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkey, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat-based Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit is set to convene a Meeting of Legislative Drafters on 8-9 November in Antigua and Barbuda. “The Meeting targets legislative drafters from CARIFORUM States that are signatory to the EPA and is designed to benefit those legislative drafters who will be tasked with…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY PICEWELL A. FORBES, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 6 NOVEMBER 2012, CARICOM
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is for me always a special pleasure and honour to accept the Credentials of a Plenipotentiary Representative of a Member State to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. The Bahamas is a valued Member of our Community, and the fact…
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CARICOM YOUTH DUB SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION A RESOUNDING SUCCESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than 9, 000 young people logged on to new media platforms on Thursday afternoon, to participate in a two hour social media interaction with the CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. Dubbed Live with SG and hosted by the CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, the live social media interaction facilitated by Dominican based COMESEE TV in…
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NEW BAHAMIAN ENVOY ACCREDITED TO CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) His Excellency Picewell Forbes, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on Tuesday presented his letters of credence to Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, at the CARICOM Secretariat. The third Plenipotentiary Representative of the Bahamas to CARICOM, Ambassador Forbes is a veteran broadcaster and communications specialist. Describing the diplomatic appointment by the…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY PICEWELL A. FORBES, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 6 NOVEMBER 2012, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is for me always a special pleasure and honour to accept the Credentials of a Plenipotentiary Representative of a Member State to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. The Bahamas is a valued Member of our Community, and the fact…
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