Press Releases
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UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY (69th Session) Statement By H.E. I. Rhonda King Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations at the Launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent Trusteeship Council Chambers 10th December, 2014 New York
Mr. President, Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the fourteen member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), I wish to express our heartfelt satisfaction at this afternoon’s launch of the International Decade for People of African Descent under the theme “People of African Descent: Recognition, Justice and Development”. We cannot underscore enough the significance of placing today’s launch…
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Guyana H. E. Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes selected as the new Secretary-General of the ACP
Press Release (Dec 10, 2014) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to announce that today, December 10, 2014, at the 100th Session of the Council of Ministers of the African, Pacific and Caribbean Group of States (ACP), held at ACP Headquarters in Brussels, Guyana's Ambassador to Belgium and the European Community, His Excellency Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes, was selected…
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CARPHA, Public Health England tackle threat of antimicrobial drug resistance
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 10, 2014: “Antimicrobial resistance threatens a return to the pre-antibiotic era when common infections and simple injuries often cause death.” This World Health Organization statement was reinforced by the Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr C. James Hospedales, at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Laboratory Twinning Workshop on Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in the…
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Arrival Statement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Election Observation Mission (CEOM) to the Commonwealth of Dominica for the House of Assembly General Elections on December 8, 2014.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at the invitation of the Government of Dominica, mounted a CARICOM Election Observation Mission to Dominica to observe that country’s General Election which is due to be held on Monday, 8 December 2014. The seven member CEOM comprising members of several Member States of the Caribbean Community arrived in Dominica…
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Preliminary Statement, (Commonwealth of Dominica General Elections)
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A five member CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) comprising Observers drawn from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago was stationed in Dominica on the invitation of the Government of Dominica to observe that country’s General Elections held on Monday, 8 December 2014. The objective of the Mission was to monitor the…
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Belize further prepares key agencies to facilitate greater access to the CARICOM Single Market
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Belizean government is this week continuing specially tailored educational sessions on the benefits, roles and responsibilities of key Government agencies and private sector groups in helping Belizeans secure their right to work, travel and do business in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. Dubbed AccessCSME – The Workplace Edition, the initiative is being…
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Dominica Elections: CARICOM Observation Mission Issues Preliminary Statement
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana). A five member CARICOM Election Observation Mission (CEOM) comprising Observers drawn from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago was stationed in Dominica on the invitation of the Government of Dominica to observe that country’s General Elections held on Monday, 8 December 2014. The objective of the Mission was to monitor the…
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Declaration of Havana on The Occasion of the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit Adopted In Havana, Cuba, 8 December 2014.
We, the heads of state and government of the Caribbean Community and of the Republic of Cuba, meeting in Havana, Cuba, on 8 December 2014, on the occasion of the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit and in commemoration of the Forty-Second anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations among the independent States of CARICOM and Cuba and the twelfth anniversary of Cuba-CARICOM Day. Proud of our shared Caribbean identity and the strong and high level of bilateral and political relations, strengthened by the…
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Remarks by Army General Raul Castro Ruz, President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba at the opening session of the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit. PALACIO DE LA REVOLUCION. DECEMBER 8TH, 2014
Honourable Gaston Alphonse Brown, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, and Chairman of CARICOM; Honourable Heads of State or Government of CARICOM member countries; His Excellency Irwin Larocque, Secretary General of CARICOM; His Excellency Mr Didacus Jules, Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States; His Excellency Mr Alfonso Múnera Cavadía, Secretary General of the Association…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at the opening of the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba summit
This Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit is testimony to the solidarity and fraternal relationship that exist among us as Caribbean people. Forty-two years ago today, we began this journey when the four independent countries of CARICOM, acting in concert, came to Havana to establish diplomatic relations. This action broke a hemispheric diplomatic embargo. It was an expression of our solidarity with Cuba,…
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