Press Releases
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FEAR A CONSTRAINT IN THE ROLL-OUT OF THE CSME SAYS PRIME MINISTER ARTHUR
The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister Of Barbados, and CARICOM Head of Government coordinating implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), highlighted xenophobia as a factor undermining ready access to a regional pool of skills and labour. Addressing the opening ceremony of Caribbean Connect, a High-Level three-day Symposium today in Bridgetown, on the CARICOM Single Market and…
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ADDRESS BY THE RT. HON. OWEN ARTHUR, PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT CARIBBEAN CONNECT: A HIGH LEVEL SYMPOSIUM ON THE SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY, 28-30 JUNE 2006, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
In considering the purposes to be served by this Symposium, we may wish to reflect on an observation by George Lamming: “The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up”. It must be a matter for some gratification that over the past 18 months there has been more evidence than in the past of…
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DEVELOPMENT FUND AN EXAMPLE OF SHARED SOVEREIGNTY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The operationalisation of the regional Development Fund will represent an instance of shared sovereignty among CARICOM Governments, and dispel some of the unfounded concerns about the loss of national sovereignty with the deepening of our economic integration process, said CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington . Addressing the opening session of Caribbean Connect, a…
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SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS ANTICIPATED FROM CARICOM SINGLE ECONOMY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt Hon Owen Arthur told a High-Level three day Symposium, on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June that “we are very near to church, but still far from God. But we must persevere.” Prime Minister Arthur said that “the substantial benefits from…
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EARLY HARVEST ON ROAD TO CARICOM SINGLE ECONOMY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington, in his welcome remarks to a distinguished gathering at the Sherbourne Conference Centre in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June, pointed to “early harvest” in the CARICOM Single Economy process. He was at the time referring to the recent acceptance by a Special Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Finance…
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CSME POTENTIALLY ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN CARICOM’S HISTORY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Patrick Manning, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), sees the CARICOM Single Market as one of the most important milestones in the development of Caribbean regional integration. In wide ranging remarks in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June, at the opening session of Caribbean Connect, a High-Level three…
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DEVELOPMENT FUND AN EXAMPLE OF SHARED SOVEREIGNTY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The operationalisation of the regional Development Fund will represent an instance of shared sovereignty among CARICOM Governments, and dispel some of the unfounded concerns about the loss of national sovereignty with the deepening of our economic integration process, said CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington . Addressing the opening session of Caribbean Connect, a…
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SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS ANTICIPATED FROM CARICOM SINGLE ECONOMY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt Hon Owen Arthur told a High-Level three day Symposium, on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June that “we are very near to church, but still far from God. But we must persevere.” Prime Minister Arthur said that “the substantial benefits from…
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CSME OBLIGATIONS ARE “OURS”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur speaking today 28 June, to the Symposium, Caribbean Connect, on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Barbados posited that the obligations under the CSME “were not imposed on us by any colonial master nor any supranational extra-regional institution. They were negotiated in good…
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DOMINICA PRIME MINISTER URGES SUPPORT FOR HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s development will depend largely on the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) institutional support. This was view of Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerritt, who briefed the media on Monday 26 June at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana during a visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters. The Prime Minister of Dominica, who held earlier meetings…
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