Press Releases
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Workshop held to Mark Close-out of ADA component of the CREDP-GIZ Project:
A workshop highlighting the main achievements of the Austrian Development Agency’s (ADA) support and to mark the end of the ADA Project component was held in the Dominican Republic on 5 March 2013 at the Office of the National Energy Commission (CNE). The CREDP-GIZ Project benefited from support to tune 0.75 Million Euros which was added to the pool of…
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GREIN INTEREST CLUSTERS ON ROADMAPS AND POWER GRIDS LAUNCHED UNDER GREIN
A launch of the interest clusters on technology deployment roadmaps for islands and power grid integration on islands under the Global Renewable Energy Islands Network (GREIN) initiative, established at the Third Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) was held in Auckland, New Zealand on 24 March 2013. Seven countries including one Member State, namely, Jamaica participated in the…
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COFCOR AND COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEET IN PORT OF SPAIN THIS WEEK
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trinidad and Tobago will be the venue this week for two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Council meetings. The Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) will meet on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th while the Community Council will meet on Thursday 16th. Both meetings will be at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre…
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STATEMENT AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Friday concluded its Thirty-Sixth Meeting recording progress to boost the Community’s trade and development agenda in key areas. Over two days, 2-3 May, 2013, the Ministers, meeting at the Pegasus Hotel in Georgetown, Guyana, advanced discussions on the strategic direction…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is for me always a special pleasure and honour to accept the Credentials of a Plenipotentiary Representative of a Member State to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat. The Bahamas is a valued Member of our Community, and the fact…
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MORE INVESTMENT NEEDED IN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN THE CARIBBEAN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Participants in the First Bi-Regional Dialogue (Caribbean–European Union (EU)) Workshop under the EUCARINET Project have called for increased investment in Science Technology and Innovation (STI) in the Region. The workshop participants, who included Senior Officials involved with STI in Member States and the Dominican Republic, representatives of the relevant Regional institutions and Caribbean Partners…
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Remarks by the Hon. Oliver Joseph, Minister of Economic Development, Planning Trade and Cooperatives At the Opening Ceremony of the 36th Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development
It is a pleasure for Grenada to be Chairing the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). Colleague Ministers, our Community is at yet another defining epoch in our development. Indeed, there is much skepticism among segments of our stakeholder groups, which has often-times weakened the case for the work of the COTED. We must do…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY ROMAN KIRN, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF SLOVENIA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 30 APRIL 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Good morning, and thank you all for being here to share in this historic occasion of the Accreditation of Slovenia’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Roman Kirn. Ambassador, it is my pleasure and honour to accept, your credentials and to extend to you and to your country my hand and…
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CARICOM WELCOMES SLOVENIA AMBASSADOR
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The first plenipotentiary representative of Slovenia to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Rohan Kirn, on Tuesday presented his letters of credence to Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. The accreditation, Ambassador LaRocque said, was an important symbolic gesture and a confirmation of Slovenia’s decision to embark on a new relationship with CARICOM. The Slovenia-CARICOM relationship,…
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