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CARICOM SETS UP TASK FORCE ON GLOBAL CRISIS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) has established a Task Force to recommend policies, programmes and approaches to lessen the effects of the global recession on CARICOM Member States. The establishment of the Task Force was announced following the 13th Meeting of COFAP which took place at the Lloyd…
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CARICOM COMMUNITY COUNCIL TO MEET EARLY FEBRUARY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Final preparations for Twentieth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community Head of Government will be in focus at the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, scheduled for Georgetown, Guyana on February 2, 2009. The second highest body in CARICOM also referred to as “The Council”, will examine arrangements for the…
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CSME THE WAY TO COMBAT THE GLOBAL CRISIS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All speakers at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) identified the greater convergence of Caribbean Community economies as a means of combating global financial and economic crises. Speaking at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, formerly the Sherbourne Centre, in Bridgetown, Barbados on Thursday 29 January, COFAP…
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OPENING REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUMPHREY HILDENBERG, MINISTER OF FINANCE, SURINAME, AT THE OPENING
Honourable Prime Ministers and Minister of Finance of Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Colleague Ministers of Finance Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ladies and gentlemenDelegates and guests. I welcome you to the 13th COFAP meeting and hope that we will have fruitful discussions. I want to thank my colleague of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE THIRTE
The Honourable Humphrey Hildenburg, Minister of Finance of Suriname and Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP); Honourable Prime Ministers of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia Honourable David Estwick and other Distinguished Ministers; President of the Caribbean Development Bank; Central Bank Governors and Deputy Governors; Assistant Secretary-General and Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat; Other Representatives…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE THIRT
The Honourable Humphrey Hildenburg, Minister of Finance of Suriname and Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP); Honourable Prime Ministers of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia Honourable David Estwick and other Distinguished Ministers; President of the Caribbean Development Bank; Central Bank Governors and Deputy Governors; Assistant Secretary-General and Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat; Other Representatives…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY FRASER WHEELER, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 23 JANUARY 2009, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Your Excellency Fraser William Wheeler and Mrs. Wheeler Members of Staff of the Secretariat and of the British High Commission Representatives of the Media Good day and warm welcome to you all! Today, we have the good fortune to witness the accreditation of the first Plenipotentiary Representative of the United Kingdom to the Caribbean Community. It is truly an…
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CARICOM SINGLE ECONOMY HIGH ON COFAP AGENDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Finance Ministers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will on Thursday examine preparations to usher in the CARICOM Single Economy (CSE) at the Thirteenth Meeting of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) which convenes in Bridgetown, Barbados. The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is CARICOM’s flagship programme. The Single Market was established in…
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CARICOM MEETINGS RESCHEDULED FOR BELIZE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) as well as that of the group of Heads of Government established to consider Issues related to the Governance of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) have been rescheduled for Belize just prior to the 20th…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS CLIMATE CHANGE “AN ATTACK ON OUR DEVELOPMENT”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington has pointed to the need for enhanced relations between CARICOM and the United Kingdom (UK) to confront the challenges posed to the Region’s development by climate change. At the ceremony for the presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Fraser Wheeler, Plenipotentiary Representative of the UK to…
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