Press Releases

  • 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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  • March 29, 2007
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    THROUGH THE EYES OF CYNTHIA MCLEOD : A HISTORICAL JOURNEY TO SURINAME IN THE 18TH CENTURY

    CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme CARICOM Reflects…Never Forget, The Caribbean Community Secretariat (CCS) in the second of a series of activities to mark the beginning of the 200th Anniversary year of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, hosted a distinguished lecture presented by highly acclaimed Surinamese author and historian, Cynthia McLeod on the topic: Elisabeth…

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  • March 29, 2007
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    CARICOM CHAIRMAN TO PUSH PROGRESS ON FUNCTIONAL COOPERATION

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dr. The Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, hopes during his tenure as Chair of the 15-member grouping, to engender more progress in the area of functional cooperation within the Community. At a press conference yesterday at the CARICOM Secretariat headquarters, Prime Minister…

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  • March 27, 2007
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    CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL AWARDED ITALY’S ORDER OF MERIT

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General H.E Edwin Carrington received today, Italy’s Order of Merit, Commander Class in an impressive ceremony at the Headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana. The bestowal was made by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Honourable Vittorio Craxi. The award was in recognition of his “long-lasting commitment for the development…

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  • March 27, 2007
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    ITALIANS SEEK CARICOM SUPPORT FOR 2015 EXHIBITION BID

    (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  An eight-member delegation from Italy yesterday visited the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat to seek the Region’s support for that country’s bid to host the 2015 Universal Registered Exhibition in Milan under the theme `Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life’. The delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Vittorio Craxi presented, for…

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