Press Releases
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CARICOM LEADERS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Tourism will be the sole item facing the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) as the working sessions of the 29th Meeting get underway on Wednesday 2 July, 2008 at the Hibiscus Room of the Jolly Beach Resort in Bolans, Antigua and Barbuda. Eleven of the Heads of Government of…
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SAINT LUCIA, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS FOR CARICOM QUIZ FINALS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Saint Lucia and St Kitts and Nevis will face off in the Finals of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Quiz competition on Tuesday, 1 July, 2008, following their resounding victories against their opponents on Monday, 30 June in the Semi-Finals of the competition which took place at the Antigua and Barbuda Exhibition and Cultural…
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JAMAICA’S BARBARA BAILEY RECEIVES CARICOM TRIENNIAL AWARD
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Jamaica’s Barbara Evelyn Bailey, Director of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies has been selected as the recipient of the Ninth CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, 2008. The Award was introduced in 1983 to recognize and honour Caribbean women who have made significant contributions to socio-economic…
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ST. KITTS AND NEVIS WINS CARICOM QUIZ COMPETITION 2008
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St Kitts and Nevis are the undisputed champions of the CARICOM Regional Quiz Competition 2008. In a keenly contested finals held on 1st July 2008, in Antigua and Barbuda, the team, comprising Yunoka Flemming, Kalea Clarke, Latoya Claxton and Rademis Tyson proved their mettle by beating the formidable Saint Lucian Team 41-37 points to…
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ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, GUYANA TOP CARICOM 10K ROAD RACE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Pamenos Ballentyne and Guyana’s Alika Morgan have again emerged champions of the Annual Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 10K Road Race held on Sunday (29 June 2008) in Antigua and Barbuda. Ballentyne, who was making his fourth consecutive win, finished the race in a time of 31.41secs beating Trinidad and Tobago’s…
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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SPORT MINISTER WANTS REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPORT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Winston Williams, Minister of Sport, Antigua and Barbuda has called on the Caribbean Community to organise a Conference of Sport Ministers to discuss the future of Regional Sport Development within the Community Minister Williams, who was speaking at the Presentation Ceremony of the Fourth Annual 10k Road Race held at the Antigua…
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TOURISM HEADS THE BILL AT 29th MEETING OF CARICOM LEADERS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty–Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) opens in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda on Tuesday 1, July 2008, with an agenda replete with critical issues. CARICOM Heads of Government will meet at the Jolly Beach Resort from 2-4 July following the opening ceremony on the…
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TOURISM HIGH ON CARICOM AGENDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Deeper levels of functional cooperation in tourism, re-branding of the Region’s tourism product to reflect its diversity, and Transportation, will be prime areas of focus when Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet in a special session devoted to Tourism during the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in…
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CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND SOON TO BE A REALITY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) is to be launched at the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Antigua and Barbuda 1-4 July 2008. A decision was taken by the Heads of Government to frontload $60M of the US$250M Fund to coincide with the launch next…
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