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CITATION IN HONOUR OF GEORGE LAMMING ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) George Lamming, poet, novelist, essay writer, orator, lecturer, teacher, editor and tireless activist for a new world-order and a New-World order, seems to have entered the world of Caribbean letters as an elder statesman. Born on June 8, 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, Lamming attended Roebuck’s Boys’ School from which he won a scholarship…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF RALSTON MILTON ‘REX’ NETTLEFORD ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The computer was a mere thought in 1933, the year Rex Nettleford was born in the parish of Trelawny on the edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country. In those days, babies cooed, giggled and googled when they were fed and felt content – as, no doubt, did baby Nettleford whose mother lavished him with loving…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF BRIAN CHARLES LARA ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) English-speaking Caribbean communities have made their greatest single cultural investment in the cricket enterprise. Citizens have come to measure the extent of community detachment from the oppressive grip of the colonial scaffold in terms of the competitive excellence of the Region’s international team. Since 1886, when the first generation of cricketers were assembled and…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF NICHOLAS JOSEPH ORVILLE LIVERPOOL ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
The distance from Grand Bay in the south-east corner of Dominica to Government House in Roseau is not much more than ten miles, but for His Excellency Dr. Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool, President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, it has been an extraordinary journey by way of Britain, most of the Western world, and every country of the Commonwealth Caribbean.…
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ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE BRUCE GOLDING, PRIME MINISTER, JAMAICA, AT THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 1-4 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
We have gathered again, as we do so frequently, this time in the beautiful islands of Antigua and Barbuda, and we must thank the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda for receiving us as splendidly as they have done. We have come together as leaders of the 15 member countries and 5 associate countries that make up this Community.…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY BHARRAT JAGDEO, PRESIDENT, GUYANA, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 1-4 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Chairpersons of the Opening Ceremony Her Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda The Honourable Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Colleague Heads of Government Premiers, Chief Ministers and Leader of Government Business of the Associate Members of the Community Secretary General…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT THE OPENING OF THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 1-4 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Your Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda The Honourable Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Your Excellencies, Presidents of Guyana, Haiti and Suriname Other Distinguished Heads of Government Honourable Ministers Secretaries-General of the Organisation of American States and of the Commonwealth…
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JAMAICA STANDS FIRM WITH CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Bruce Golding, Prime Minister of Jamaica, in an unequivocal statement on Tuesday (1 July 2008) to the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government re-affirmed his country’s commitment to CARICOM. Prime Minister Golding who was attending his first Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government as a Head…
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REGIONAL SECURITY STILL A CARICOM PRIORITY SAYS P.M. BALDWIN SPENCER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) New Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Hon Baldwin Spencer has cited the issue of regional security as one of the most critical issues to be tackled by the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government. Addressing the Opening Ceremony of the Meeting…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE OPENED YESTERDAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The historic Dickenson Bay in Antigua and Barbuda was the venue of the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. That after forty-three years, the Conference should return to the venue of the signing of the Agreement which had ushered in the Caribbean Free…
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