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RNM News Release 02/05 – CARICOM and Canadian Trade Officials optimistic about way forward in Trade
CARICOM AND CANADIAN TRADE OFFICIALS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT WAY FORWARD IN TRADE TALKS CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – “Both sides felt that the meeting was constructive. Today’s encounter has provided impetus for forward momentum in a process that is the precursor to the commencement of formal negotiations for an enhanced trade arrangement between CARICOM and Canada.” This was the view of the…
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CARICOM REGION MOBILISES FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Member States are gearing for the technological challenges of globalisation through active participation and cooperation in the sphere of information technology. As part of preparations for phase two of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which takes place in Tunisia November 2005, several Regional organisations and institutions are meeting at the CARICOM Secretariat,…
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CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC STATES FOCUS ON FOOD SECURITY IN MAURITIUS
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the Government of Italy and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Wednesday (January 12) co-sponsored a forum on agriculture, food production and food security in the Caribbean and Pacific regions as a partnership event at the international meeting on small island developing states (SIDS) in Mauritius.…
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REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS TO DISCUSS ICTs AHEAD OF WSIS MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM officials, representatives of Regional organisations and Regional universities will meet in Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday, 12 January 2005 for the first CARICOM Regional Stakeholders meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The WSIS Stakeholders Meeting is expected to receive and determine a strategic Regional response to activities leading up to WSIS, as…
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CARIBBEAN TO FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, VULNERABILITY REDUCTION AT MAURITIUS MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The devastating 2004 hurricane season in the Caribbean, the recent catastrophic underwater earthquake and resulting tsunamis in Asian coastal and Island countries, an earthquake which caused millions of dollars in damagde in Dominica in November and quakes in Trinidad and Tobago and Cayman Islands provide a chilling backdrop to the participation by the Caribbean's small island…
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CARIBBEAN TRADE MINISTERS HOLD TALKS WITH EU TRADE COMMISSIONER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Trade Ministers of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States, Cuba and the Dominican Republic will participate in a meeting with the European Union Commissioner For Trade, His Excellency Peter Mandelson on Thursday, 6 January 2005. The meeting will take place in Georgetown, Guyana, where Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers are scheduled to convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the…
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COMMUNITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING, REGIONAL EDUCATION, SINGLE MARKET AND OTHER ISSUES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The challenges of globalization and the implications for higher education in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), facilitation of CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Implementation, preparations for the February 16-17 Sixteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government and the Community’s position on the recent tsunami disaster in Asia will be among the major issues…
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