Press Releases
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Caribbean: Sugar Price Cut Unconscionable, Devastating
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – “The decision of the EU to proceed with such a hefty price cut is outrageous and unconscionable, and as though to add insult to injury EU beet sugar producers will now receive compensation covering 64.2% (inclusive of an additional €2.2 billion) of the loss incurred by the price cut. In contrast, a meagre €40 million has…
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Caribbean Trade Ministers Plan For WTO Ministerial
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean Trade Ministers meeting in Barbados yesterday (November 19), in preparation for the Sixth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, which will take place in Hong Kong December 13 to 18, emphasized that unless development issues are given prominence in the negotiating agenda, the Ministerial is not likely to end in agreement. This is fundamental for…
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CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE II REGIONAL FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS IN PARTNERSHIP TO REDUCE HIV/AIDS
Regional Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) will meet on 22-23 November 2005 in Georgetown, Guyana at the second Champions for Change Conference to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination. Convened by the CARICOM-coordinated Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), the Conference, under the chairmanship of CARICOM Assistant Secretary-General for Human and Social Development, Dr. Edward Greene, will among other issues, identify challenges relating…
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Busy Time For CARICOM Delegations Attending WSIS In Tunisia
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)Caribbean Ministers attending Phase 11 of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) have been very involved in the activities in Tunis, Tunisia where the Summit opened on Wednesday 16 November. The Hon Burchell Whiteman, Jamaica’s Minister of Information and his colleague the Hon. Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology have participated in official…
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CARICOM Secretary-General Congratulates Trinidad and Tobago’s National Football Team
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington today joined the rest of the Caribbean Community in extending warm congratulations to the Captain and players of the Trinidad and Tobago National Football team on the occasion of their success in qualifying for the World Cup Finals to be held in Germany next summer. In congratulating the team, Secretary General…
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REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY H.E. M. PATRICK BOURSIN, AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TO CARICOM, 14 NOVEMBER 2005, AT THE CARICOM Secretariat, TurkeyEN, Guyana
Your Excellency Ambassador Patrick Boursin Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Distinguished Guests Members of the Media Enfin nous y sommes! – Finally we are here! It is truly my pleasure and honour to do what history and geography, culture and anthropology have long deemed natural and inevitable. It is my pleasure to formally affirm…
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STATEMENT OF CONGRATULATIONS BY H. E. EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM TO THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN MEDIA WORKERS ON THE OCCASION OF THE INSTALLATION OF THEIR NEW EXECUTIVE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)The CARICOM Secretariat extends to the Association of Caribbean Media Workers heartiest congratulations on the election and installation of a new executive. Your organisation, representing as it does, media professionals from across the Caribbean region, is well placed to play a critical informational and educational role, as we take yet another important step to deepen the regional…
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STATEMENT BY CARICOM SECRETARY–GENERAL HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY CHARLES MAYNARD, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) 13 OCTOBER 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Press release 172/2005(13 October 2005 ) Deputy Secretary General Members of the CARICOM Staff Distinguished Guests Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen Today I am extremely honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Maynard, and to receive his Credentials accrediting him as Dominica’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Your Excellency, I welcome you on this occasion to the…
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REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION
Your Excellency Ambassador Patrick Boursin Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Distinguished Guests Members of the Media Enfin nous y sommes! – Finally we are here! It is truly my pleasure and honour to do what history and geography, culture and anthropology have long deemed natural and inevitable. It is my pleasure to formally…
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Statement By H. E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), On The Second Phase Of The World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS) In Tunis, 16-18 November 2005, Tunisia
The Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gets under way this week in Tunisia with a promise of bridging the digital divide between the more developed and developing countries and hastening the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the help of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). For us in the Caribbean…
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