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  • REGIONAL VIEWS ON WTO NEGOTIATIONS PLACED IN SHARPER FOCUS

    Two months after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Round of talks broke down in Cancun Mexico, CARICOM Ministers of Trade seek to assert the Caribbean’s position for the resumption of negotiations and offer their perspective on the way forward. Meeting with Director General of the WTO, Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown last weekend, the Ministers together with representatives from Mexico,…

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  • STATEMENT BY THE MOST HON. P.J. PATTERSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF CARICOM-CUBA DAY 2003

    It is with great pleasure that today, 8 December, we celebrate CARICOM-Cuba Day. Thirty-one years ago, four Caribbean Community countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago – opened this chapter in the Community’s history by establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. Last year, the thirtieth anniversary of this historic event was appropriately commemorated with a meeting in Havana, by…

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  • CARICOM-UK LEADERS TALK TRADE AND SECURITY

    CARICOM Heads of Government, in London en route to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Abuja, Nigeria, met over breakfast with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair today at his invitation. They took the opportunity at this the latest in their biennial discussions, to exchange views on a number of issues of mutual interest, particularly those relating to trade…

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  • CARICOM MISSION CONTINUES DISCUSSIONS IN INDIA

    The CARICOM Mission to India led by the Hon. K.D. Knight, current Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica continued its five-day visit with stops at a number of Hi-Tech organizations in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh (State). The Delegation, which includes Secretary-General Edwin Carrington and Special Assistant Glenda Itiaba, met with…

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  • CARICOM MISSION STRENGTHENS CARICOM-INDIA RELATIONS

    The CARICOM Mission to India, led by the Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers Hon. K.D. Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica and including the CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Edwin Carrington and his Special Assistant, Ms. Glenda Itiaba, got underway on Tuesday, 25 November with discussions in Delhi, with the Hon. Yashwant Sinha, Minister…

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  • SECRETARY-GENERAL OFF TO INDIA, CHOGM

    CARICOM Secretary-General Mr. Edwin Carrington is closing off a busy year with a heavy schedule of engagements, which began last weekend. On Sunday, Mr. Carrington left the Region with the Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers, the Hon. K. D. Knights, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica, on a six-day visit to India in response to…

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  • JAPAN HONOURS CARICOM

    In a brief ceremony held at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, last Thursday (4th September), the Secretary General of CARICOM, Mr. Edwin Carrington received on behalf of the people of the Community a Plaque to mark the distinction of co-operation between the Region, and Japan’s External Trade Organisation. (JETRO). CARICOM was singled out as the only…

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  • MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO BRAZIL ON DEATH OF UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL ENVOY MR. SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil and has the honour to convey the following message.     “The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat expresses its deepest condolences on the tragic passing of United Nations Special Envoy Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, who died in service for humanity.    …

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  • CARICOM/CARIFORUM, GOVERNMENT OF ITALY AND FAO SIGN FOOD SECURITY PROJECT

    The Caribbean Community/CARIFORUM, the Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed a US$5 million Food Security Project in Milan on 21 March 2003. The Project is Italy's response to a US$26.2 million programme submitted by CARICOM/CARIFORUM to a Meeting on Food Security at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC in November last year. Food…

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  • CARICOM AND CANADA TRADE MINISTERS MEET IN PORT OF SPAIN

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers will gather in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Monday 10 March 2003 for a one-day meeting with their Canadian counterpart, the Hon. Pierre Pettigrew. Monday’s meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre comes just nine days after CARIFORUM Trade Ministers met with the European Union’s Trade Commissioner Mr Pascal Lamy in Castries,…

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