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CARICOM LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN MATERIALS ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community Secretariat dovetailed the half-yearly meeting of CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government to launch a variety of creative products that it intends to use in a public education campaign against Gender-Based Violence. And what opportune time to build awareness on violence against women but on March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD…
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SPORTS ACADEMY LAUNCH FOR CARICOM SUMMIT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Regional Sports Academy will be launched at the Twenty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which begins in Paramaribo, Suriname on Thursday 8 March 2012. The inaugural group of students to the Academy, which will be in Suriname, will be presented to the Bureau of…
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41 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FROM CHLI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Health Leadership Institute (CHLI) will hold its graduation ceremony for the fourth cohort of its Leadership Training Programme on Wednesday 7 March 2012. The event will take place simultaneously via videoconferencing sites across the Caribbean. This year a total of 41 students will graduate from the course from the following countries: Antigua…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEET IN SURINAME: RESTRUCTURING AND REFORM HIGH ON AGENDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meet in Suriname next week Thursday and Friday for their 23rd Inter-Sessional Conference, it is to discuss a crisp agenda, which has among its priorities, the Landell Mills review of the CARICOM Secretariat and the strategic direction of the 15-member Community. The report titled, Turning around CARICOM:…
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Role Of The Caricom Secretariat In Energy/renewable Energy In The Caribbean : Excerpts From Interviews With Caricom Energy Ministers And Other Prinicpals
SURINAME: Professor Gregory Rusland, Minister of Natural Resources, The CARICOM Secretariat has to look for the major expertise within the region, and not try to re-invent the wheel, but try to make use of the expertise that exists in Suriname, in Trinidad and other areas of the region. Try also to make use of those structures in order to support…
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PRIVATE SECTOR HAS A CRUCIAL ROLE TO PLAY- CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL
(CARICOM Secretarait, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The private sector must play a crucial role if the Community is to achieve the results from the priorities laid out last year by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government. This is the view articulated by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General at a business luncheon hosted by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA)…
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ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE GUYANA MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION LTD BUSINESS LUNCHEON 29 FEBRUARY 2012 GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to…
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ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE GUYANA MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION LTD BUSINESS LUNCHEON 29 FEBRUARY 2012 GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown) Thank you for this invitation to speak at your quarterly Luncheon. This Luncheon affords me the first opportunity, since assuming office as Secretary-General some six months ago, to address a forum in Guyana outside of the confines of Secretariat’s Headquarters or a Secretariat organized event. The time could not be more appropriate for me to…
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HEADS OF GOVERNMENT ARE COMMITTED TO THE INTEGRATION PROCESS SAYS SG
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Political will is not alone to blame for the so-called implementation deficit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), says Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of CARICOM. Responding to comments from the floor following an address to the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association in Georgetown on Wednesday, Secretary-General LaRocque said: “I am satisfied that our Heads of…
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‘WE MUST SET PRIORITIES’ – CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must take into account necessity, urgency and resources required when setting its targets and be mindful of “what it can, and cannot do”, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General, said Wednesday. Delivering the feature address to the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association quarterly business luncheon at the Regency Suites in Georgetown,…
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