Areas of Work
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CARICOM/EU TRADE A UNIQUE CHALLENGE : CARIBBEAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT REPORT, 2000
Trade with the European Union (EU) following the new Cotonou Agreement presents a unique challenge for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) according to the Caribbean Trade and Investment Report, 2000 just released by the Economic and Intelligence and Planning Unit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. However, the Report cautions that the package also poses an imminent threat to the commodity…
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IMPLEMENT OR PERISH : STATEMENT BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE SECOND SPECIAL CONSULTATION ON THE CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY, 20 NOVEMBER 2000, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
Prime Ministers, Ministers, Excellencies, Colleagues in the Public Sector, the Private Sector, the Labour Movement, Consumer Bodies, Non-Governmental Organisations, Bar Associations, Universities, Media from across the Region – Good morning and welcome to this the Second Special Consultation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. It is with considerable anticipation that the Secretariat is participating in the convening of this…
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CARICOM HEADS AND REGIONAL MEDIA MEET TO PROPEL THE CSME
The Second Special Consultation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will take place in Barbados on 20-21 November, 2000 with CARICOM Heads of Government meeting with the regional media networks to intensify the CSME's Public Education Programme. The two-day deliberations will examine circumstances shaping the CSME with a view to designing a campaign aimed at deepening the intra-regional…
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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT TAKING SHAPE IN REGIONAL DECISION-MAKING MACHINERY
Caribbean Youth’s contribution to the decision-making process of the regional integration movement specifically as it pertains to the social development of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) could impact on the deliberations of one of CARICOM’s principal organs, the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), which will convene its Fourth Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana from 4-6 October, 2000. This move signals…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS RESPOND TO CHALLENGE
Twenty seven Caribbean youth leaders have been invested as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors at the just concluded Regional Youth Explosion 2000 at the St George’s University Campus in St. George’s, Grenada (17-23 July, 2000) to take forward a goodwill mission for Youth empowerment in the regional integration process. The cadre of youth leaders representing 13 Member States and the…
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YOUTH ENGAGING THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS
The youth leadership in the Caribbean is moving into the main-stream of the regional decision-making process, making full use of the parliamentary process to give sound effect to the issues they considered urgent and critical to regional development and youth empowerment. Emerging from the just concluded one-week Regional Youth Explosion 2000 at the St. George’s University campus in St. George’s,…
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CARIBBEAN YOUTH EXPLOSION 2000 ON THE MOVE
More than 90 youth delegates representing 18 Caribbean territories move into the third round of deliberations today, up-beat on their course of action to make a formidable impact in moving forward the implementation of decisions and recommendations pertaining to the empowerment and development of Caribbean youth which have arisen out of conferences and workshops held over the past five years.…
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PROPOSED TARIFF RATE QUOTA SYSTEM FOR BANANAS: PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
In my capacity as Lead Spokesman for the Caribbean Community on Bananas I sent off a letter on Saturday July 8, 2000 to the President of the General Affairs Council of the European Union Mr. Hubert Vedrine, expressing alarm at the recent proposals submitted by the Commission with a view to resolving the Banana dispute on Monday July 10, 2000.…
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CSME IS REGION’S TOP PRIORITY
Delegates attending the Ninth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), have been encouraged to use the opportunity to assess the progress towards establishment of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), the flagship programme of the regional integration movement, at this critical juncture of the Community's future development. In addressing the opening session this morning, Barbados'…
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