Press Releases
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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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MEXICO LOOKS TO STRENGTHEN RELATIONS WITH CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Newly accredited Mexican Ambassador to Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Fernando Sandoval Flores, today underscored the commitment of the United Mexican States to fortify its relations with the Region. Speaking at the Ceremony for the Presentation of Credentials, on May 28, 2009, Ambassador Sandoval stated that México’s establishment of an Embassy in Georgetown, Guyana…
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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS DEMANDS COOPERATION AS NEVER BEFORE – SOUTH AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Faith Radebe, the first Plenipotentiary Representative of South Africa to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has emphasised the need for greater bilateral collaboration in the face of the global financial and economic crisis. She said the crisis “impressed upon us cooperation demands that have never been seen before”. Ambassador Faith Radebe was at…
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PRESIDENT JAGDEO CALLS FOR MORE INCENTIVES FOR AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The two-day Public-Private Sector Consultation on agribusiness wrapped up in Georgetown Thursday with an acknowledgement by stakeholders that much more needed to be done to shape agriculture into a more viable sector to advance growth in the Region. On Thursday evening, His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana and Lead Head of Government with…
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CARICOM HEALTH MINISTERS AGREE TO CURB SMOKING IN PUBLIC SPACES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caucus of Ministers of Health have endorsed a recommendation for the banning of smoking on public spaces as a public good and regional goal, as the Region intensifies its efforts to tackle Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), under the Port of Spain Declaration on Uniting in the fight against NCDs. At a meeting of the…
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AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTATION : IDENTIFYING MARKET DEMANDS, CHALLENGING PRODUCERS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The forum on agribusiness was one step towards identifying the demands of the market and setting the challenge for producers to meet those demands, officers of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat have said. Ms. Desiree Field-Ridley, Adviser, Single Market and Sectoral Programmes, and Mr. Sam Lawrence, Adviser, Regional Transformation Programme on Agriculture, indicated that…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, greater Georgetown, Guyana) “International cooperation is now more than ever necessary for global sustainable development,” CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington said yesterday, May 27, 2009. He was at the time speaking at the Ceremony for the Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Tatsuaki Iwata, Plenipotentiary Representative of Japan to the Caribbean Community. The ceremony…
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