Environment

  • April 17, 2008
    442

    REGION URGED TO MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT A PRIORITY

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment opened formally on 17 April 2008 with the acknowledgement that collective action was critical to confronting the environmental challenges that the Region faced. The link between the environment and the quality of life of the Region’s citizens was…

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  • April 15, 2008
    462

    CARICOM MINISTERS LOOK TO CURB ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Government with responsibility for the Environment begin a two-day meeting in Georgetown on Thursday 17 April 2008 aimed at charting a course to curb environmental degradation. At least nine Ministers will attend the Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). In brief remarks at…

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  • April 9, 2008
    518

    SPECIAL COTED ON ENVIRONMENT IN GEORGETOWN

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The environmental dimension within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), Climate Change and Disaster Management, are high on the agenda of a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment on 17-18 April 2008. Jamaica will be in the chair for this the Twenty-Fifth Special COTED which…

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  • July 5, 2005
    677

    DEVELOPING COUNTRIES MUST BE CUSHIONED IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT

      (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are leading by example in streamlining the required arrangements to cushion any fall out that may occur as a result of the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market (CSM). Speaking with reporters following his brief to CARICOM Heads of Government in Saint Lucia on Monday 4 July, the…

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  • April 27, 2004
    753

    A CLEANER, HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT FOR THE REGION

    The CARICOM Region should look to breathing much cleaner air and accessing cheaper electricity over the next few years with the execution of the Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP). A Global Environmental Facility (GEF) grant of US$3.726 million made available through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the most recent addition to the international financial assistance already secured…

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  • July 31, 1999
    532

    STATEMENT BY HON. HILROY HUMPHREYS OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA AND CO-CHAIRMAN, THIRD MEETING OF THE CARICOM/US JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 22 JULY 1999, WASHINGTON D.C.

    Mr. John Hamilton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Other officials of the United States Government; My colleague Ministers from the Caribbean, as well as the Ambassadors and other diplomats from the States of the Caribbean Region. Ladies and Gentlemen. It is said that, in a newly-established democracy, the third election is the true test of viability of…

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  • July 27, 1999
    464

    JOINT STATEMENT OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN/UNITED STATES JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES,  22 JULY 1999, WASHINGTON, D.C.

    The Third Meeting of the Caribbean/United States Joint Committee on Development, Finance and Environmental Issues was convened in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 1999, under the Co-Chairmanship of the Hon. Hilroy Humphreys, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Business Development, Antigua and Barbuda, and Mr. John R. Hamilton, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. The Meeting was…

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