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Cable & Wireless to invest $400 million regionally
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Richard Dodd, Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Wireless (Caribbean), has disclosed that the firm will invest over US$400 million in telecommunications development in the Caribbean region over the next three years. With its transformation programme officially launched in May, Dodd said Cable & Wireless is repositioning itself for an era of competition, especially in the…
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Agriculture recognised as vital to CARICOM Economic Development
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market Advisor with the CARICOM Secretariat, Ms Desiree Field Ridley has cited Agriculture as one of the Community’s critical responses to the global challenges now impacting the Region’s economic well-being. In her presentation titled, The Caribbean Community- Challenges as we proceed into the 21 Century, Ms Field-Ridley told the…
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PERSPECTIVES ON ENHANCING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURE : KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR COMPTON BOURNE, O.E., PRESIDENT, CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, AT THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN FOOD CROPS SOCIETY, 14 JULY 2008, MIAMI, FLORIDA
I. PREAMBLE I am honoured by the invitation of the Caribbean Food Crops Society to speak at its Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting. Your longevity is indicative of an accumulation of knowledge and service to the agricultural sector of the Caribbean which I, a mere Economist and occasional dabbler in the special field of agricultural economics cannot match. Therefore I thank you…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE REGIONAL AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT FORUM, 6-7 JUNE 2008, LILIENDAAL, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
His Excellency the President of Guyana The Hon. Prime Minister of Guyana The Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas Cabinet Ministers of Guyana and other Honourable Ministers of Government of the Caribbean Community Members of the Diplomatic Corps Mr. James Moss-Solomon, Chairman, and other Members of the Task Force Members of the Private Sector Deputy Secretary-General and other members of…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE REGIONAL AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT FORUM, 6-7 JUNE 2008, LILIENDAAL, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
His Excellency the President of Guyana The Hon. Prime Minister of Guyana The Deputy Prime Minister of the Bahamas Cabinet Ministers of Guyana and other Honourable Ministers of Government of the Caribbean Community Members of the Diplomatic Corps Mr. James Moss-Solomon, Chairman, and other Members of the Task Force Members of the Private Sector Deputy Secretary-General and other members of…
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Caricom Secretariat Staff To Walk On World Environment Day
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will be engaged in a car pooling exercise and a Walk on World Environment Day which is being observed Thursday, 5 June 2008 under the theme: Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Dr Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary General, Human and Social Development of the CARICOM Secretariat said,…
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ADDRESS BY DR. THE HON. CHRISTOPHER TUFTON, M.P., MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, JAMAICA, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
[Salutations] It is customary on occasions like these for us to remind ourselves of the times in which we are gathered. This 27th Special Meeting of COTED is being opened here this morning against the background of a global food crisis, precipitated by spiralling commodity prices worldwide, and characterized by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to…
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REMARKS BY THE HON. ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MBA MP, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting was planned, I insisted on an agenda with a reduced number of…
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REMARKS BY THE HON. ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MBA MP, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, AT THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 21 MAY 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful. When this meeting was planned, I insisted on an agenda with a reduced number of…
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