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vREGIONAL CULTURAL COMMITTEE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS IN CULTURAL ADVOCACY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After twenty years, the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) has much to be proud of as an advisory body instrumental in shaping cultural policies, infusing the regional culture programme with new ideas, approaches and attitudes and providing advice to Ministers of Culture on the many pressing issues on the Region’s cultural agenda. This, according to…
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PM SPENCER TO LAUNCH REGIONAL SERVICES SYMPOSIUM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon. Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda will launch a Regional Symposium on Services on Thursday 4 June 2009. Prime Minister Spencer, the Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Services in the Quasi Cabinet of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will launch the symposium at his Office in St. John’s. Plans…
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ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE RUDYARD SPENCER, MINISTER OF HEALTH, JAMAICA, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF T
Mr. Chairman, De. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General, Human and Social Development, CARICOM The Honourable John Fabien, Minister of Health, Dominica, and Chairman of the COHSOD The Honourable Andrew Holness, Minister of Education, Jamaica Other Distinguished Regional Ministers Mr. Enel Brudson, Acting Custos of St. James Professor Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mr. Roger McLean, Senior…
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COHSOD SHOULD PROVIDE STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH AND EDUCATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is the duty of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to provide strategic leadership in health and education in the face of the challenges posed by global crises. This was the challenge laid down by the Honourable Rudyard Spencer, Minister of Health of Jamaica to his colleague Ministers…
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OPENING REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE ANDREW HOLNESS, MP, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, JAMAICA, AT THE EIGHTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 3-4 JUNE 2009, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
I take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to each of you to the 18th meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development, and to Jamaica. The Government of Jamaica is pleased to be hosting this week’s meeting. The provision of quality education and health services is critical to ensuring human and economic development for any country. In…
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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS EFFECT OF DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL STATUS IN THE CARIBBEAN : PRESENTATION BY MR. ROGER MCLEAN TO THE OPENING SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 3-4 JUNE 2009, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
Threats to Social gains The present global economic recession has been described as the worse since the Great Depression of the 1930s. While it is not the first economic crisis of a global magnitude it is unique in character, as the present situation represents a recession that is linked to a financial crisis. It is reported that these types of…
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CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND UNDERTAKES CARICOM MISSIONS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) has started a series of consultative missions designed to make the organisation responsive to CARICOM Member States who are to be the first beneficiaries of grants, interest subsidies and concessionary loans. The Caribbean Community agreed that these Member States are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and…
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TASK FORCE ON CULTURE WANTS CREATIVE TALENTS FORMALISED THROUGH THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Second Meeting of the Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries opened today, Monday 1 June, in Suriname, with the pressing issue of the future of Caribbean Cultural Industries high on the agenda. The meeting observed and noted that for the Caribbean Cultural Industries to bloom successfully, artists, governments and institutions needed to play…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF THE GUYANA COALITION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS, 1 JUNE 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
The services sector is the largest and fastest growing sector of the world economy, providing more than 60% of the GDP in many countries and an even larger percentage of employment. For example, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, tourism is the world's largest employer, accounting for one in ten workers worldwide. Figures show that in 2000…
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THE 21ST CENTURY CARIBBEAN DIPLOMAT – PRACTICING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DIPLOMACY : REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR MID-CAREER DIPLOMATS IN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 18-29 MAY 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guyana Professor E. Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Your Excellency Albert Ramdin, Assistant-Secretary-General of the OAS Mr Henry Charles, Director Commonwealth Youth Programme and Representative of the Commonwealth Secretariat Members of the Diplomatic Corps The Honourable Sir Shridath Ramphal, OCC The…
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