Press Releases
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HIGH HOPES FOR SERVICES SYMPOSIUM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Regional Symposium on Services which opened Wednesday morning in St. John’s Antigua and Barbuda, is being hailed as an exciting initiative that should result in the reversal of a history of poor implementation of regional decisions. The Symposium is being held by the CARICOM Secretariat with support from the United Kingdom Department for…
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TIME TO MEASURE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INVASIVE SPECIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Agriculture policymakers and plant scientists believe the time has come for countries to measure the financial impact of invasive species on national economies and consequently they believe there needs to be a major investment in research. This view was heavily mooted by the officials on the final day of a symposium on invasive species…
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Regional Symposium on Services
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than a hundred representatives of the Services Sector in the Caribbean will gather in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda to begin charting a more structured approach to the development of the Sector within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Chief Executive Officers of large, medium and small sized enterprises operating in…
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CARICOM YOUTH PLANT TREES IN SOLIDARITY WITH HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Young people representing 18 Caribbean Community countries, on Sunday, participated in a symbolic tree-planting exercise in Haiti, as part of a four-day Caribbean Youth Exchange programme, which started on Thursday 9 July, 2009. The Programme was funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) with support from the Ministry of Youth,…
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CARICOM YOUTH BRIDGING THE LINGUISTIC DIVIDE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) So there were awkward moments and instances of frustration too, much gestures, gesticulations and the occasional ‘unknown tongue,’ as the team of CARICOM youth delegates knocked minds, heads, hands and hearts with their Haitian counterparts to stage the piece de resistance– a theatrical production that was to be the fitting climax or rather…
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REMARKS BY DR. HILARY BROWN, PROGRAMME MANAGER, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CARIBBEAN YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMME, 9 JULY 2009, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
Salutations Good morning. I am very pleased to make these brief remarks on behalf of the Secretary General of CARICOM, H. E. Mr. Edwin Carrington, who sent his deepest regrets that he was unable to join us for the Opening of this Youth Exchange Programme today. It is a joy to see young people from so many Member States coming…
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REMARKS BY DR. HILARY BROWN, PROGRAMME MANAGER CULTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CARIBBEAN YOUTH EXCHANGE PROGRAMME, 9 JULY 2009, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
Salutations Good morning. I am very pleased to make these brief remarks on behalf of the Secretary General of CARICOM, H. E. Mr. Edwin Carrington, who sent his deepest regrets that he was unable to join us for the Opening of this Youth Exchange Programme today. It is a joy to see young people from so many Member States coming…
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CSME VITAL TO OUR SURVIVAL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The creation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy is vital to our survival as small states, critical to our development within the prevailing global economic system, and central to our strategy to improve the quality of life of our people.” This, according to Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager, Culture and Community…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE SEMINAR FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CARIBBEAN CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION (CARICAD), 8 JULY 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Madame Chair Most Honourable Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, Former Governor-General of Jamaica Executive Director and Other Board Members of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) Professors Ralph Carnegie and Winston Anderson Assistant Secretary-General LaRocque and other Distinguished Participants Ladies and Gentlemen Good morning and a warm and hearty welcome to you all to the CARICOM Headquarters. The…
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ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, the Hon Stephenson King wants “all hands on deck” for what he considered “tough negotiations” in the run up to the Fifteenth Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change slated for Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. The Saint Lucia Prime…
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