Press Releases
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INTEGRAL LINK BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, FUNCTIONAL COOPERATION – DR. EDWARD GREEN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary-General Human and Social Development, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, has underscored the integral link between sustainable development and functional cooperation. According to Dr. Greene, the two elements both help to harness multi-sectoral, multi-cultural and inter-sectoral programmes around a common objective – the integration of the human and social factors of…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ENVIRONMENT), 17 APRIL 2008, LILIENDAAL, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Mr. Chairman Hon. Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture, representing the Prime Minister of Guyana Hon. Allen Chastanet, Minister of Tourism of Saint Lucia and Representative of the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Lead Head of Government in the Quasi-Cabinet with responsibility for Sustainable Development Ministers of Environment of CARICOM Member States Assistant Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque and other members of Staff…
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MORE CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES TO BENEFIT FROM PEPFAR: CARICOM HEALTH MINISTER LAUDED FOR LEADERSHIP ROLE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Honourable John Maginley, Minister of Health of Antigua and Barbuda has come in for praise for his leadership role in contributing to the passage of a bill which sees the expansion of the United States President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to include fourteen Caribbean countries. US Congresswoman, Donna Christensen, of the…
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CARICOM MINISTERS LOOK TO CURB ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Government with responsibility for the Environment begin a two-day meeting in Georgetown on Thursday 17 April 2008 aimed at charting a course to curb environmental degradation. At least nine Ministers will attend the Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). In brief remarks at…
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CARICOM/PANCAP RCM CONVENES TENTH MEETING
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM/Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) will meet in St. Kitts and Nevis on 16-17 April 2008, under the chairmanship of the Hon. Pablo Marin, Minister of Health, Belize and present Chair of the RCM. High on the agenda of this tenth meeting is the Caribbean Regional…
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SPECIAL COTED MEETING OF OFFICIALS BEGINS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Technical officers and experts in the field of the environment today buckled down to the business of fleshing out responses to the varied environmental problems facing the Region as the Twenty-Fifth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) got underway at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) in Georgetown. The…
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SPECIAL COTED ON ENVIRONMENT IN GEORGETOWN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The environmental dimension within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), Climate Change and Disaster Management, are high on the agenda of a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on the Environment on 17-18 April 2008. Jamaica will be in the chair for this the Twenty-Fifth Special COTED which…
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HIGH ATTENDANCE AT CARICOM QUIZMASTERS WORKSHOP
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Thirteen Member States were represented at the workshop organized for quiz masters by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in preparation for its second regional school quiz to mark the 35th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas Sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) in collaboration with CARICOM and the Government of…
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CARICOM LOOKS AT REFORM OF ELECTRIC SECTOR
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will be convening the Second Meeting of Experts and Stakeholders Concerning the Development of Harmonised Legislation for the Reform of the Electric Sector at the Amaryllis Beach Resort, Christ Church, Barbados during the period 9-11 April 2008. This meeting is co-sponsored by the Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP),…
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT ITS THIRTEENTH SPECIAL MEETING, 4-5 APRIL 2008, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held its Thirteenth Special Meeting in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 4-5 April 2008. Crime and Security was the focus of the Meeting as agreed at the Nineteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas. The thrust of the Meeting was to ‘fully ventilate the crime and security issues…
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