Press Releases
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SPECIAL COHSOD MEETS ON HEALTH
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Special Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) on Health will be convened at the offices of the Pan American Health Organisation, Caribbean Office, Bridgetown, Barbados on 15 June 2007. Under the chairmanship of Dr. the Hon. Jerome Walcott, Minister of Health, Barbados, the Eleventh Special COHSOD will discuss…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS PARTNER WITH TELESUR TO PROMOTE CSME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors are partnering with telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, to develop a high impact Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project that is expected to engage Caribbean Youth in competitive activities that will promote the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). The proposed project titled, Cari-CAM aims to use Information and Communication Technologies…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS PARTNER WITH TELESUR TO PROMOTE CSME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Youth Ambassadors are partnering with telecommunications giant of Suriname, Telesur, to develop a high impact Information and Communication Technology (ICT) project that is expected to engage Caribbean Youth in competitive activities that will promote the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). The proposed project titled, Cari-CAM aims to use Information and Communication Technologies…
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CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN: US COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZ TO SPEAK AT OPENING CEREMONY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados the Rt Honourable Owen Arthur and United States Commerce Secretary Mr. Carlos Gutierrez will deliver the keynote addresses on behalf of CARICOM and the United States respectively, at the Plenary Opening Ceremony of the Conference on the Caribbean which begins in Washington DC on 19 June 2007. It was stated…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR, STABROEK NEWS, 9 JUNE 2007: CHARTER OF CIVIL SOCIETY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat wishes to thank Mr. Bryn Pollard for his letter to the Editor, Stabroek News on Saturday, 9 June 2007 entitled `National Committees are Vital to the Implementation of the Charter of Civil Society’. In stating that “Article 4 of the Charter mandates every Member State adopting the Charter to…
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CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN: PM ARTHUR AND US SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY PAULSON TO SPEAK AT OPENING CEREMONY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados the Rt Honourable Owen Arthur, who also has the lead portfolio for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and US Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Henry M. Paulson Jr., will deliver the keynote addresses at the Plenary Opening Ceremony of the Conference on the Caribbean which begins in Washington…
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REGIONAL CULTURAL COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS CARIFESTA X
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Preparations for CARIFESTA X, the Caribbean Community’s premier Festival of the Arts will be one of the key issues high on the agenda of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) slated for Havana Cuba, on 8-9 June 2007. The Bahamas, which has responsibility for hosting CARIFESTA X in August, 2008 will…
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CARIBBEAN WEATHER HEADS ATTEND HIGH-LEVEL MEETING OF UN ORGANIZATION
Geneva, Switzerland, May 24, 2007: The Coordinating Director of the Port of Spain-based Caribbean Meteorological Organization (CMO), Mr Tyrone Sutherland, was unanimously re-elected for a second term as the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Second Vice-President. Mr Sutherland has served on the WMO Executive Council since 1999, and was first elected as a Vice-President in 2003. The election took place at…
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NEW SYSTEM IN PLACE TO TRACK SAINT LUCIA’S PROGRESS ON THE MDGS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government of St. Lucia has launched HelenInfo, its adaptation of DevInfo 5.0., a mechanism to monitor statistics and indicators. HelenInfo, was launched on 13 April 2007 under a joint collaborative arrangement instituted primarily by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and UNICEF to strengthen statistical capacity in the area of Social Statistics in the…
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JOINT COTED-COFAP MEETING IN PORT OF SPAIN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Councils for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and Finance and Planning (COFAP) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will meet in a joint session from 5-7 June 2007 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Joint Meeting will consider a revision of `Towards a Single Economy and a Single Development Vision’, a report…
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