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MINISTERIAL STATEMENT ON BANANAS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trade Ministers of the Caribbean Community, meeting at the Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting for the Council of Trade and Economic Development in Antigua and Barbuda on 10 May 2008, examined various issues relating to the Region’s banana industry, in particular, matters affecting the level of preferential access to the European market — preferences that have…
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STATEMENT ON MAYNMAR ISSUED BY THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), 7-9 MAY 2008, BOLANS VILLAGE, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Fully aware of its own vulnerability to natural catastrophes, and having repeatedly experienced the devastating effects of hurricanes, Ministers expressed their sympathy and solidarity with the people of Myanmar following last week’s disastrous cyclone which, by some accounts, is estimated to have taken 100,000 lives and rendered 1,500,000 homeless and destitute. The risk of starvation and disease among the…
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CARIBBEAN RECEIVES US$2.5M GRANT FROM EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO SUPPORT RENEWABLE ENERGY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Forum of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) and the European Commission, recently signed a Financing Agreement totalling US$ 2.45 million to support the Caribbean Region in the Sustainable Management of its Energy Resources. As part of this total, CARICOM is contributing US$ 200,000. The signing took place at the CARICOM…
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GUYANA EXPECTS RECORD PARTICIPATION FOR CARIFESTA X
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The tenth staging of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA X) is set to attract record participation from Caribbean Latin American, North American and European countries according to Guyana’s Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, the Hon. Dr Frank Anthony. In the first of a series of press briefings on CARIFESTA X started…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN. W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), 7 MAY 2008, ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Her Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of COFCOR, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer Honourable Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Attorney-General of Belize and Outgoing Chariman of COFCOR Honourable Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dominica Honourable Ministers…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL CHALLENGES COFCOR TO RESPOND TO GLOBAL SHIFTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The crafting of the Caribbean Community’s response to the rapidly changing international and hemispheric environment and acknowledgement of the shifting priorities of CARICOM’s traditional partners, are among the issues regional Ministers of Foreign Affairs must tackle during the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) Meeting now underway in Antigua and Barbuda. Delivering opening…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN. W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR), 7 MAY 2008, ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Her Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of COFCOR, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer Honourable Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Attorney-General of Belize and Outgoing Chariman of COFCOR Honourable Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dominica Honourable Ministers…
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THREE CARICOM MINISTERIAL MEETINGS THIS WEEK
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Councils will meet this week as the Community intensifies its preparations for the 29th Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government to be held in Antigua and Barbuda in July. The Eleventh Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) and the Twenty-Sixth Special Meeting of the…
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HIGH LEVEL G77 PANEL PREPARES FOR UN MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The two-day meeting of the G77 High Level Panel of Eminent Personalities on a Development Platform for the South which took place in Antigua and Barbuda ended on Wednesday 30 April, 2008, with a comprehensive discussion on South-South co-operation. In the closing remarks, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, the Honourable Baldwin Spencer,…
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