Press Releases

  • April 18, 2007
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    FRANCE HIGHLIGHTS COOPERATION PRIORITIES

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government of France has identified as priority areas of cooperation with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), enhancing the rule of law, combatting all forms of trafficking, and providing assistance on sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Those and other areas were outlined by new French Ambassador to CARICOM. H.E. Jean-Paul Dumont when he presented his…

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  • April 18, 2007
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    CARICOM THANKS FRANCE FOR MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR ICC CWC 2007

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Edwin Carrington has expressed gratitude to the government of France for its support to the Caribbean during the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) which concludes on April 28. France readily acceded to the Region’s request for medical emergency facilities in support of its widespread efforts to…

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  • April 18, 2007
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    REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY JEAN-PAUL DUMONT, PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TO CARICOM, 18 APRIL 2007, TURKEYEN, GUYANA

    Ambassador Jean-Paul Dumont, Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the Republic of France to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite Assistant Secretaries-General Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Representatives of the Media Excellency, in November of 2005, I was pleased to receive, on behalf of the Caribbean Community, the credentials of your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Boursin, as…

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  • April 17, 2007
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    SPAIN’S FIRST AMBASSADOR TO CARICOM PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) History was created when Spain’s first Ambassador to CARICOM presented credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington on Tuesday 17 April at CARICOM Headquarters in Georgetown. Ambassador Jesus Silva in remarks at the ceremony saw this development as the beginning of “another phase between the already deep relations between Spain and CARICOM”; one that…

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  • April 17, 2007
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    SPAIN LAUDS CARICOM INTEGRATION PROCESS

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Spain and the European Union (EU) are observing with “interest and admiration”, the efforts of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in its integration process, says Ambassador Jesus Silva. The first accredited envoy of Spain to CARICOM, in presenting his credentials to CARICOM Secretary General H.E. Edwin Carrington, Tuesday April 17, 2007, said further that CARICOM…

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  • April 17, 2007
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    Caribbean Trade Ministers Assert their Position on WTO Negotiations

    “This meeting was timely and useful. We heard Director General Lamy’s perspectives on the current status of the negotiations, the obstacles that impede real progress and the way forward in the negotiations. The Caribbean used the opportunity to reiterate our priorities and articulate our key issues in the Doha Development Round of negotiations”. This is the viewpoint of CRNM Director…

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  • April 11, 2007
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    CARIBBEAN TRADE MINISTERS, WTO DIRECTOR-GENERAL TO MEET IN JAMAICA

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington will lead a delegation from the Secretariat to participate in landmark meetings with Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Caribbean Ministers of Trade, in Kingston, Jamaica April 12 and 13. The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States…

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  • April 3, 2007
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    CLIVE LLOYD NOW A ‘CHAMPION FOR CHANGE’

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Edwin Carrington on Tuesday April 3, 2007, invested cricket legend Clive Hubert Lloyd with the title `Champion for Change’ in the fight against HIV and AIDS, with special reference to the reduction of stigma and discrimination. The conferral ceremony was held at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen,…

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  • March 29, 2007
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    CARICOM REFLECTS … NEVER FORGET

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr the Hon Ralph Gonsalves has called upon the Community to use the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as an opportunity to teach the younger generation of the region, the history, the…

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  • March 29, 2007
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    SOME ASPECTS OF SUNSET LEGISLATION MAY STAY – CARICOM CHAIRMAN

    Some aspects of the Sunset Legislation currently in place in the nine countries hosting Cricket World Cup 2007,in the Caribbean may remain, but others may not, Chairman of the Caribbean Community, Dr. The Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said yesterday. For example, the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) has worked well, and should remain,…

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