Press Releases
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CARIBBEAN CONNECT : A HIGH LEVEL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY (CSME)
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community Governments, the Labour Movement and some three hundred private sector organizations are expected to be represented at Caribbean Connect; a High-Level Symposium on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) 28-30 June 2006 at the Sherbourne Conference Centre, Barbados. Under the patronage of the Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados…
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PRESIDENT PREVAL DELIGHTED AT HAITI’S RETURN
His Excellency Rene Garcia Preval, the President of Haiti, expressed his great delight at his country’s resumption of formal arrangements with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The President was speaking during a meeting with CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday 23 June. The Secretary-General, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations, Ambassador Colin…
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PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT FOR CARICOM 10K
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Long distance runners from across the Caribbean region will gather in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis on Sunday 2nd of July for the second annual CARICOM 10K road race which has now become a calendar event for athletes in the Region. The road race, which has become an added feature of the CARICOM Heads…
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OECS FULLY SUPPORTS CSME, SAYS DOMINICA’S PRIME MINISTER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Hon Roosevelt Skerritt has assured that the countries of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) “are in total support of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).” The Prime Minister, who arrived in Guyana on Sunday 25 June and leaves on Tuesday 27 June, met…
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CARICOM HEADS TO CONSIDER FREE MOVEMENT EXPANSION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A case for the inclusion of artisans, nurses, domestics and teachers to move freely as skilled nationals under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), will be presented to Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community when the 27th Regular Meeting of the Conference convenes on 3-6 July in St Kitts and Nevis.…
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CARICOM 10K ROAD RACE FOR 2 JULY RUN OFF IN ST. KITTS/NEVIS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St. Kitts and Nevis will be the venue for this year’s staging of the annual CARICOM 10K invitational road race which will take place on Sunday 2nd July, one day prior to the start of the 27th meeting of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community. The CARICOM Invitational 10K, which…
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REGIONAL MEDIA BRIEFED ON 27TH CARICOM SUMMIT AGENDA
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) When Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meet on 3-6 July in St Kitts and Nevis for the Twenty-Seventh Regular meeting of the Conference, they will take a hard look at a wide range of issues including migration, human trafficking and the changing geo-politics of the Region, as well as the role…
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CONTRIBUTION FORMULA FINALISED FOR DEVELOPMENT FUND
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The establishment of the regional Development Fund has now been assured with the general acceptance by participating Member States of a contribution formula put forward by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and endorsed by CARICOM Ministers of Finance. Addressing a regional press conference on Tuesday 20 June, CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General for Regional Trade and…
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NEW CARIFESTA MODEL LAUNCHED IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme Celebrating our People: Contesting the World Stage, a new model for the staging of the Ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA 1X) was unveiled on Monday 12 June in Trinidad and Tobago, host country of the largest cultural festival of the Caribbean. The new CARIFESTA, which was approved by CARICOM Heads…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN SATISFIED WITH SINGLE MARKET PROGRESS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) the Honourable Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago referred to the completion of the CARICOM Single Market process and the imminent finalisation of arrangements for the regional Development Fund as two issues of which he felt most proud of his tenure as Chairman. Speaking in Paramaribo,…
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