Press Releases
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DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS WORKSHOP CONCLUDES IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgtown, Guyana) Deputy Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite and Vice President, Finance of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Mr. Neville Grainger, will deliver remarks at the formal closing session of a Demographic Analysis Workshop in Trinidad and Tobago on 17 August. The ceremony will be held at the Faculty of…
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CARICOM COMMISSION ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OUTLINES WAY FORWARD
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Youth leaders of the Caribbean Region and experts in the area of youth work concluded a four-day meeting on Friday, in Kingston, Jamaica with a clearer path in charting a meaningful agenda for youth development. The August 07 to 10 meeting was the second face-to-face meeting of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD)…
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YOUTH LEADERS APPLAUD CELL PHONE PROJECT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM youth leaders at their recent meeting in Kingston, Jamaica have applauded the ICT partnership between the CARICOM Secretariat and telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, as timely, unique and innovative. The partnership will see Telesur providing technical support and institutional strengthening to the Secretariat for the CARICOM Youth Ambassador Programme (CYAP) and the CARICOM…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF THE TWELFTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATION, 9 AUGUST 2007, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twelfth Caribbean Community-Japan Consultation was held at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on 9 August 2007. The CARICOM delegation was led by Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guyana and Ambassador to the Caribbean Community and Japan by His Excellency Ambassador Koichiro Seki, Representative of the Government of Japan to…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF THE TWELFTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATION, 9 AUGUST 2007, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twelfth Caribbean Community-Japan Consultation was held at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat on 9 August 2007. The CARICOM delegation was led by Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guyana and Ambassador to the Caribbean Community and Japan by His Excellency Ambassador Koichiro Seki, Representative of the Government of Japan to…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR HARPER, DIRECTOR GENERAL, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GUYANA AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) CO-CHAIR AT THE TWELFTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 9 AUGUST 2007, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Ambassador Koichiro Seki Members of the Japanese delegation Members of the CARICOM delegation Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Officials of the CARICOM Secretariat Members of the Media It is with great pleasure that I welcome the distinguished delegation from Japan and Delegations from the Caribbean Community to the Twelfth CARICOM-Japan Consultations being held here at the Headquarters of the…
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JAPAN FORMALLY HANDS OVER VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT TO CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) formally accepted video-conferencing equipment from the Government of Japan today at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Community in Georgetown Guyana. Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite accepted the equipment on behalf of CARICOM, from Japan’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Koichiro Seki. Under a project, funded by…
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MESSAGE FROM MR. TARO ASO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN TO THE TWELFTH JAPAN-CARICOM CONSULTATION, 09 AUGUST 2007, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my great pleasure that the Twelfth Japan-CARICOM Consultation Meeting is convened in the Republic of Guyana, with representatives from CARICOM Member States and Japan. Since 1993, this forum has been greatly contributing to development of the solid base for friendly ties between Japan and CARICOM Member States as well as for our…
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REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR HARPER, DIRECTOR GENERAL, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF GUYANA AND CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) CO-CHAIR AT THE TWELFTH CARICOM-JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 9 AUGUST 2007, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Ambassador Koichiro Seki Members of the Japanese delegation Members of the CARICOM delegation Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Officials of the CARICOM Secretariat Members of the Media It is with great pleasure that I welcome the distinguished delegation from Japan and Delegations from the Caribbean Community to the Twelfth CARICOM-Japan Consultations being held here at the Headquarters of the…
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED ON THE LAUNCH OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND PANAMA, 8 AUGUST 2007, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama today launched free trade negotiations in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The negotiations which will build on the existing free trade agreement between CARICOM and Costa Rica are intended to result in an agreement that…
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