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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), 1-4 JULY 2008, BOLANS, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
The Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held at Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda from 1-4 July 2008. The Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer presided. Other members of the Conference in attendance were: the Prime Minister of Barbados, Hon. David J. H. Thompson; the Prime Minister of the…
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ARRIVAL STATEMENT FROM THE CARICOM ELECTORAL OBSERVER MISSION TO GRENADA, 4 JULY 2008
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On the invitation of the Government of Grenada, the Caribbean Community will field a five member mission to observe the General Elections in Grenada over the next few days. The Mission under the leadership of Mrs. Versil Charles-Wright, Deputy Chief Election Officer of the Elections and Boundaries Commission of Trinidad and Tobago has been…
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HARASSMENT A THREAT TO CSME, SAYS GUYANA PRESIDENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana President, His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo said the treatment meted out to some Caribbean nationals by immigration officers at some Caribbean ports of entry was posing a direct threat to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Addressing the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR BARBARA BAILEY ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE NINTH CARICOM TRIENNIAL AWARD FOR WOMEN, 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Professor Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Jamaican by birth and a Caribbean woman by disposition, has distinguished herself as an educator and as an advocate of gender equality and equity in the Caribbean Community and beyond. She has done so primarily through her teaching and research at the University of the West Indies and through unstinting…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF GEORGE LAMMING ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) George Lamming, poet, novelist, essay writer, orator, lecturer, teacher, editor and tireless activist for a new world-order and a New-World order, seems to have entered the world of Caribbean letters as an elder statesman. Born on June 8, 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados, Lamming attended Roebuck’s Boys’ School from which he won a scholarship…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF RALSTON MILTON ‘REX’ NETTLEFORD ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The computer was a mere thought in 1933, the year Rex Nettleford was born in the parish of Trelawny on the edge of Jamaica's Cockpit Country. In those days, babies cooed, giggled and googled when they were fed and felt content – as, no doubt, did baby Nettleford whose mother lavished him with loving…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF BRIAN CHARLES LARA ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) English-speaking Caribbean communities have made their greatest single cultural investment in the cricket enterprise. Citizens have come to measure the extent of community detachment from the oppressive grip of the colonial scaffold in terms of the competitive excellence of the Region’s international team. Since 1886, when the first generation of cricketers were assembled and…
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CITATION IN HONOUR OF NICHOLAS JOSEPH ORVILLE LIVERPOOL ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE ORDER OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (OCC), 1 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
The distance from Grand Bay in the south-east corner of Dominica to Government House in Roseau is not much more than ten miles, but for His Excellency Dr. Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool, President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, it has been an extraordinary journey by way of Britain, most of the Western world, and every country of the Commonwealth Caribbean.…
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ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE BRUCE GOLDING, PRIME MINISTER, JAMAICA, AT THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 1-4 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
We have gathered again, as we do so frequently, this time in the beautiful islands of Antigua and Barbuda, and we must thank the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda for receiving us as splendidly as they have done. We have come together as leaders of the 15 member countries and 5 associate countries that make up this Community.…
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REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY BHARRAT JAGDEO, PRESIDENT, GUYANA, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TWENTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 1-4 JULY 2008, DICKENSON BAY, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Chairpersons of the Opening Ceremony Her Excellency Dame Louise Lake-Tack, Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda The Honourable Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community Colleague Heads of Government Premiers, Chief Ministers and Leader of Government Business of the Associate Members of the Community Secretary General…
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