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REMARKS BY H.E. DRS. RUNALDO RONALD VENETIAAN, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SURINAME, CARICOM LEAD HEAD FOR CULTURE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NINTH CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS (CARIFESTA IX), 22 SEPTEMBER 2006, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards and Dr. Jean Ramjohn Richards, Honourable Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Senator Hazel Manning, Artists, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour and pleasure for me to be present here today and a participant at the Opening of the Ninth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) in Port of Spain, Trinidad and…
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ADDRESS BY HON. PATRICK MANNING, PRIME MINISTER, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF NINTH CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL OF ARTS (CARIFESTA IX), 22 SEPTEMBER 2006, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Government Ministers Members of the Diplomatic Corps Visitors to our Shores Distinguished ladies and gentlemen I consider it an especial honour to be here with you this evening and to have the opportunity to address you. I welcome one and all to this year’s Caribbean Festival of the Arts. On behalf of the government and people the Republic of Trinidad…
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SECRETARY-GENERAL PARTICIPATES IN BELIZE’S 25TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington, was among three CARICOM representatives participating in this week’s celebrations of Belize’s 25th Anniversary of Independence. The Secretary-General – the holder of Belize’s Order of Distinction – joined a number of representatives including from Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Cuba, Nigeria, South Africa and Taiwan, as well as the Assistant Secretary-General…
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY RT. HON. SAID MUSA, PRIME MINISTER, BELIZE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE OF BELIZE, 21 SEPTEMBER 2006, BELMOPAN, BELIZE
It was 25 years ago today that Belizeans achieved their aspirations nurtured over many years to rid themselves of colonial status and become a sovereign independent State with security and territorial integrity. This was made possible above all because so many Belizeans had, over the centuries since the settlement was established by British logwood cutters, struggled for their rights, first…
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CARIFESTA IX SET FOR OPENING ON FRIDAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Ninth Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) opens in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, 22 September, 2006. The ten-day festival which ends on 1 October will see the introduction of some of the elements of a Strategic Plan for a New CARIFESTA. This plan received the full support of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads…
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) SECRETARIAT ON THE OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
As we, in the Caribbean, mark on 21 September, another observance of International Day of Peace with the rest of the world, we do so in the midst of an extremely dangerous and difficult period of multiple crises. As we look at the world today, we cannot escape the reality of widespread violence, gross abuses of international humanitarian law, atrocities…
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ADDRESS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, 15 SEPTEMBER 2006, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Prime Minister The Hon Patrick Manning The Hon John Rahael, Minister of Health Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of UWI and UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Members of the Diplomatic Corps Other Officials Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat and indeed the entire CARICOM Family. I take…
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ADDRESS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, 15 SEPTEMBER 2006, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Prime Minister The Hon Patrick Manning The Hon John Rahael, Minister of Health Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of UWI and UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Members of the Diplomatic Corps Other OfficialsLadies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat and indeed the entire CARICOM Family. I take this…
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CARICOM CONGRATULATES GUYANA’S PRESIDENT ON HIS RE-ELECTION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of CARICOM, His Excellency Edwin Carrington has congratulated His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, the President of Guyana on his recent re-election to the post following his success at the 28 August general elections in Guyana. The message reads: “Excellency, On behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and on my own behalf as Secretary-General, I…
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REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND THE CARIBBEAN FORUM OF AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC (ACP) STATES, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SIGNING OF A FINANCING AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND CARIFORUM FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND CAPACITY BUILDING FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN, 13 SEPTEMBER 2006, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN,
His Excellency Mr. Per Eklund Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite Assistant Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin La Rocque Once again, it is a great pleasure for me as Secretary-General of CARIFORUM to be participating in a signing ceremony with a representative of the European Union. Ambassador Eklund, thank you very much for your statement. In early May of this year, right here…
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