Press Releases
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CARIBBEAN LEADERS MEET ON EPA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Matters related to the signing of the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will be the focus of two Heads of Government meetings to be held in Barbados on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 at the Sherbourne Conference Centre. The first of the meetings will be the Fourteenth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of…
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CARICOM/PANCAP CONVENES ELEVENTH MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM/PANCAP Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) will hold its eleventh meeting on 4-5 September 2008, in Dominica. High on the agenda of the meeting of the executive body of PANCAP is the implementation and management of the recently revised Caribbean Regional Strategic Framework 2008 -2012, the work programme of the partnership. The meeting is…
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OPENING STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF A STUDY TOUR OF THE CARICOM SECRETARIAT BY A DELEGATION FROM THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY, 1-3 OCTOBER 2008, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Dr. Weggoro, Director, Productive and Social Sector of the East African Community Secretariat, and Head of the East African Community delegation; Representatives from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda; Colleagues, staff of the CARICOM Secretariat including those of the CSME Unit in Barbados who are participating via Video Conference; I am honoured to have the opportunity to welcome you today…
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CARIFESTA X ENDS ON HIGH NOTE: HOST COUNTRY GUYANA STANDS TALL
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) At the end of a ten-day magical display of Caribbean culture taking place throughout the length and breadth of Guyana, the country’s President, His Excellency Bharat Jagdeo has lauded nationals of Guyana for the tremendous display of hospitality in hosting the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA). In the 10th staging of the premier festival…
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OFF TO THE BAHAMAS FOR CARIFESTA XI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When The Bahamas opens its arms in 2010 to welcome artists from the Caribbean, officials there will do so in the warm and festive style for which the chain of Caribbean islands is known. Some of this was on display on Sunday, 31 August at the Guyana National Stadium as the curtain came down…
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COLOURFUL, HIGH ENERGY CEREMONY CLOSES CARIFESTA X
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Goergetown, Guyana) CARIFESTA X ended Sunday evening in Georgetown after ten days of at times frenetic activities, reflections, soothing night-time chorales, thought-provoking symposia and impressive presentations of art and artforms and other events at various venues throughout Guyana. The curtains were drawn at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence – the venue where it all began on…
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CALL TO PRESERVE THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GOLDEN AGE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When the legendary musical maestro Trinidadian Lord Kitchener died in 2000 the Steel band in Trinidad and Tobago was dealt a serious blow from which it has not yet recovered. This view was expressed by Rubadiri Victor in a presentation under the theme “Journeys of Caribbean Imagination” in the continuing symposia series which is…
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CARIBBEAN PROFILE CAN BE BOOSTED THROUGH CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) An ongoing programme of cultural diplomacy can be beneficial to the Caribbean once it is implemented strategically. Such a programme should draw on the unique culture of the Caribbean which is being displayed at the 10th staging of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA), now taking place in Guyana. This view was shared by…
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CARIFESTA X FEVER INTENSIFIES AT GRAND MARKET
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Drums, dance, pan and soca music, chorale singing, story telling and pottery making converged at the Grand Market in the National Exhibition Site Sophia to create an alluring exposition of the Caribbean culture as CARIFESTA X fever intensifies in Georgetown, Guyana. The tenth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) Grand Market got underway on Saturday…
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WALCOTT WARNS AGAINST FOREIGN EXPLOITATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Nobel Laureate the Hon Derek Walcott, OCC has warned the Caribbean Region against foreign investors whom he asserted did not facilitate or create opportunities for cultural development. Speaking at the opening of the CARIFESTA X Symposia yesterday, (24 August 2008) at the Guyana International Convention Centre, the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize for…
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