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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN. W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY PATRICIO PRADEL, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF CHILE TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 28 JUNE 2010, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Your Excellency, Ambassador Pradel Deputy Secretary-General and other Members of the Executive Management Committee of the CARICOM Secretariat Other Members of the Staff of the Secretariat Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen Excellency, as we commence today’s proceedings, I wish to take this opportunity to reiterate, the Community’s heartfelt sorrow at the terrible loss of…
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Opening Remarks By H.E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) at The Tenth Meeting Of The Council For National Security And Law Enforcement (CONSLE), 24 June 2010, St. John’s, Antigua And Barbuda
It is my pleasure, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to be in Antigua and Barbuda and to join in greeting you all on behalf of the Caribbean Community Secretariat and indeed of the entire Community. This meeting comes at a very hectic period for me and the Secretariat, as we are in the process of preparing for the…
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CARICOM TRADE MINISTERS AGREE ON NON-RECIPROCAL ACCESS FOR SOME HAITIAN GOODS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministerial Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) has given its support to a proposal for Haiti to have non-reciprocal access to the Community’s markets for some goods for a period of three years. The COTED meeting ended in Georgetown on Friday and Chair of the two-day Meeting, Senator the…
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OPENING REMARKS BY ELIZABETH RILEY, DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (AG), CARIBBEAN DISASTER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (CDEMA), AT THE CARIBBEAN REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AGRICULTURE INSURANCE, 15 JUNE 2010, ST. JOHN’S, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Good evening, it is a pleasure to be here in Antigua and Barbuda and an even greater pleasure to deliver brief remarks at this opening ceremony of the Caribbean Regional Symposium on Agriculture Insurance. Ladies and gentlemen, we in the Caribbean know the reality of living with risk. The plethora of traditional hazards which we face – natural and…
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PARTNERING TO MAKE CARPHA A REALITY : REMARKS BY DR. THE HONOURABLE DENZIL L. DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, AT THE CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY (CARPHA) PARTNERS MEETING, 14 JUNE 2010, WASHINGTON, DC, USA
It gives me great pleasure to be here this morning and to join you for this very important Partners’ Meeting for the establishment of the Caribbean Public Health Agency. INTRODUCTION This event is taking place at a time when the region and the world are advisedly recovering from one of the worse economic and financial crises since the 1930s.…
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REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE SWEARING-IN OF MR. JUSTICE CHARLES WINSTON ANDERSON AS A JUDGE OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (CCJ), 15 JUNE 2010, KINGSTON, JAMAICA
It is, for me, a signal and special honour – indeed privilege – to have been invited by the Government of Jamaica to bear witness to today’s auspicious occasion, the swearing-in of Mr. Justice Charles Winston Anderson, as Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). The occasion is particularly auspicious, as today marks the first…
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PARTNERING TO MAKE CARPHA A REALITY : REMARKS BY DR. THE HONOURABLE DENZIL L. DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, AT THE CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY (CARPHA) PARTNERS MEETING, 14 JUNE 2010, WASHINGTON, DC, USA
It gives me great pleasure to be here this morning and to join you for this very important Partners’ Meeting for the establishment of the Caribbean Public Health Agency. INTRODUCTION This event is taking place at a time when the region and the world are advisedly recovering from one of the worse economic and financial crises since the 1930s.…
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OPENING REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN. W. CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE MEDIA CLINIC AHEAD OF THE THIRTY-FIRST MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 15 JUNE 2010, KINGSTON, J It is my pleasure to open the batting this afternoon, (the West Indies can do with a change!) at this Media Clinic and hope that I score more rAMAICA
It is my pleasure to open the batting this afternoon, (the West Indies can do with a change!) at this Media Clinic and hope that I score more runs that the West Indies openers did in the Test Match that ended on Sunday! Seriously though this clinic has become an annual feature of the preparations for the July Meeting…
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REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY (CARPHA) PARTNERS MEETING, 14 JUNE 2010, WASHINGTON, DC, USA
Let’s Get Involved It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. Today, 14 June 2010, we are engaging partners in a discussion on the future of one of the most impressive and important undertakings. One that may be deemed an…
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REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE CARIBBEAN PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY (CARPHA) PARTNERS MEETING, 14 JUNE 2010, WASHINGTON, DC, USA
Let’s Get Involved It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and indeed the entire CARICOM Secretariat. Today, 14 June 2010, we are engaging partners in a discussion on the future of one of the most impressive and important undertakings. One that may be deemed an…
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