Press Releases
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CARICOM observers for Haiti elections
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A six member team from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will travel to Haiti on Saturday 4th February, to observe the first round of next Tuesday’s presidential and legislative elections. The team will be headed by Jamaica’s former Director of Elections, Mr. Noel Lee, and will include observers from other Member States. CARICOM’s spokesman on…
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PANCAP-REGIONAL MEDIA CHAMPIONS DRAFT ACTION PLAN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives of the regional media industry meeting at a conference to accelerate their role in reducing HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination identified a number of challenges to their optimal involvement in the Region’s response to the epidemic. Among the challenges identified were the lack of research on HIV and AIDS coverage, including content,…
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MEDIA CRUCIAL TO STEMMING HIV/AIDS RELATED STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean media has been charged to consider its modus operandi even as policy makers recognise its potency as an agent for change in reducing stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS. Speakers at the at the formal opening of PANCAP’s three-day Champions for Change III : Conference to Accelerate the Media’s Role in reducing…
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STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), THE HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS, ON THE OCCASION OF CARICOM-CUBA DAY, 8 DECEMBER 2006
I am deeply honoured to address the people of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of Cuba, on this the 34th Anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and Members of the Caribbean Community. On that historic day in 1972, four independent CARICOM countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago – in a bold act of diplomacy…
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EFFICIENCY VITAL TO HAITI’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In order to complete the stabilisation of Haiti and set it on the path to social and economic development, there was need for efficiency, Deputy Secretary General, Her Excellency, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite said. The Deputy Secretary General made the observation during a Conference for Haiti’s Social and Economic Development held at La Casa de…
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNFPA MEDIA AWARDS, 2 DECEMBER 2006, MONA, JAMAICA
Over the years I have learnt to take up any offer to hold hands with the media with a hint of trepidation. But this time around I feel safer as the chaperone is the United Nations. And even though not the blue helmets of the peacekeeping force, the United Nations Population Fund grants me enough cover to feel reasonably safe…
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MESSAGE BY THE HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND THE PAN CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV AND AIDS (PANCAP) ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY, 1 DECEMBER 2006
Today, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) join our brothers and sisters throughout the world symbolizing our deepest commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. This disease, which is the highest cause of death among our youth between the ages of 15-29, as well as our most productive workforce between…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DELIVER ADDRESSES IN JAMAICA, MIAMI, GUADELOUPE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary General, His Excellency, Edwin Carrington, leaves Guyana on December 1 for a series of speaking engagements in Jamaica, Miami and Guadeloupe. The Secretary-General will be in Jamaica on Saturday December 2 to deliver the feature address at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Caribbean Media Awards function. The theme of the awards…
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PANCAP TO ENGAGE MEDIA AS CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives of the Region’s media industry will meet on December 7-9, 2006 in Barbados, at the third Champions for Change Conference aimed at accelerating the process to reduce HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination. Convened by the CARICOM-coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), this third conference seeks to secure the informed…
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MESSAGE BY THE HON. DR. DENZIL DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND THE PAN CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV AND AIDS (PANCAP) ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY, 1 DECEMBER 2006
Today, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the members of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) join our brothers and sisters throughout the world symbolizing our deepest commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. This disease, which is the highest cause of death among our youth between the ages of 15-29, as well as our most productive workforce between…
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