Press Releases

  • March 12, 2009
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    CAPACITY TO ACT IN UNISON NECESSARY TO CONFRONT GLOBAL CRISIS – SECRETARY-GENERAL

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The absolute urgency for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to have the capacity to act, and to do so in unison in the current global situation was underscored Thursday by His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM. In remarks at the brief opening ceremony of the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of…

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  • March 12, 2009
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    CONSOLIDATE GAINS OF CARICOM SINGLE MARKET – PM BARROW URGES COMMUNITY

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize Prime Minster and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) the Hon. Dean Barrow has dismissed as “an exaggeration” the “regional chatter” predicting the demise of the integration movement, and called on delegates to the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of Heads of Government of CARICOM to consolidate the gains of the CARICOM Single Market and…

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  • March 12, 2009
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    CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT ON CCJ TO BE PROPOSED SHORTLY – PRIME MINISTER BARROW

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, will shortly propose to his Parliament constitutional amendments towards the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the final appellate court of that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member State. The Prime Minister’s announcement Thursday morning at the opening of the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of the…

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  • March 12, 2009
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    CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS TO PROVIDE PROPOSALS TO HEADS OF GOVERNMENT ON GLOBAL CRISIS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Committee of Central Bank Governors is to provide to Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), proposals on how the Community could collaborate to tackle the current international financial and economic crisis. The Committee should present the proposals by the end of March. The global situation was the premier item of the…

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  • March 12, 2009
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    Caribbean community (CARICOM) electoral observer mission to Antigua and Barbuda : preliminary statement

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On the invitation of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, the Caribbean Community mounted a CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission to monitor the election system and processes, as well as the conduct of the General Elections held on 12 March 2009. The eleven member Observer Mission led by Mr. Noel Lee, former Director of Elections…

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  • March 11, 2009
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    Secretary-General:  SERVICES SECTOR SITTING ON GOLD MINE OF OPPORTUNITIES

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize has joined seven other CARICOM Member States in establishing a Coalition of Service Providers to increase the export of services within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and provide technical and other inputs into negotiations for the trade in services. The Coalition of service industries is an umbrella body that represents various…

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  • March 11, 2009
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    BELIZE AG CALLS FOR CHANGE IN APPROACH TO EDUCATION

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize’s Attorney General and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Honourable Wilfred Elrington has called for a “fundamental change” in the country’s approach to education. Speaking on the occasion of the launch of the Belize Coalition of Services Providers (BCSP), the minister said that emphasis should be placed on the service areas…

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  • March 10, 2009
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    STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT

    Secretary General of the United Nations, Your Excellency Ban Ki-Moon; Their Excellencies, Representatives of the CARICOM Caucus of Ambassadors to the United Nations; Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs; Representatives of Specialised UN Agencies; Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States; Deputy Secretary General and Representatives of the CARICOM Secretariat; Heads and other Representatives…

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  • March 10, 2009
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    REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY BAN KI-MOON, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL,  TO THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH GENERAL MEETING BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF CARICOM AND THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM, 09 FEBRUARY 2009, NEW YORK

    Mr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM ExcellenciesLadies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to join you for this forum. Since the United Nations and CARICOM signed our cooperation agreement some twelve years ago, we have collaborated closely on a number of critical issues. I welcome this opportunity to deepen our ties further still. We meet at a time of crisis. The…

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  • March 10, 2009
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    GLOBAL CRISIS CALLS FOR INCREASED COOPERATION BETWEEN UN, CARICOM – UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The United Nations (UN) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) needed to step up cooperation in the face of the current global economic and financial crisis and work to combat serious problems such as narco-trafficking and the accompanying violent crimes, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said Monday. In this regard, the renewed cooperation between CARICOM…

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