Press Releases
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OPENING REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 5 JANUARY 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Madam Chairman, Minister Maria Levens Outgoing Chairman, Minister Elvin Nimrod Honourable Ministers Delegates Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Members of the media: I take this opportunity to extend to each of you my very best wishes for a happy 2005 filled with meaningful achievements and good health. To visiting Ministers and members of their delegations: welcome to Guyana and to…
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OPENING REMARKS BY HON. DR. MARIA E. LEVENS, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, REPUBLIC OF SURINAME, AT THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, 5 JANUARY 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Colleague Ministers and their distinguished delegates, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community and his hardworking staff. I would like to wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year. May CARICOM continue to be productive and beneficial to our Region. The year 2004 did not end as gloriously as we would have wished for all of us. Being elements of nature,…
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CARIBBEAN TRADE MINISTERS HOLD TALKS WITH EU TRADE COMMISSIONER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Trade Ministers of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States, Cuba and the Dominican Republic will participate in a meeting with the European Union Commissioner For Trade, His Excellency Peter Mandelson on Thursday, 6 January 2005. The meeting will take place in Georgetown, Guyana, where Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers are scheduled to convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL UPDATES NEW COMMUNITY CHAIRMAN
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington on Monday (December 20) led a delegation of senior staff of the CARICOM Secretariat to Suriname for a meeting with the President of the Republic of Suriname, His Excellency Dr. Runaldo Venetiaan, who assumes the chairmanship of the 15-member Community for six months from January 1, 2005. The meeting, which…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL UPDATES NEW COMMUNITY CHAIRMAN
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, His Excellency Edwin W. Carrington on Monday (December 20) led a delegation of senior staff of the CARICOM Secretariat to Suriname for a meeting with the President of the Republic of Suriname, His Excellency Dr. Runaldo Venetiaan, who assumes the chairmanship of the 15-member Community for six months from January 1, 2005. The meeting, which…
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CARICOM SECRETARIAT REMEMBERS THE ELDERLY AT CHRISTMAS
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has reached out to four senior citizens' homes in Guyana as the Secretariat's management and staff seek to spread Christmas cheer to an important segment of the population in the Community with gift items aimed at making life more comfortable for the residents and staff of the homes. The presentations took place at a handing…
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Statement sent by the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to H. E. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community are aware of the recent intense campaign directed against you and the United Nations. The Heads of Government are concerned by these attacks and take this opportunity to express our continued confidence in you and your commitment to the ideals of the United Nations. The Heads of Government are cognizant of the fact…
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PAN Caribbean Partnership Against Aids Selected as International Best Practice
The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) will this week be officially designated an “International Best Practice” by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) during a Press Launch of the publication: Common Goals, Shared Responses: A Case Study on the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP). The publication, produced jointly by the UNAIDS and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariats, will be…
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Bright Prospects Loom for CARICOM Integration
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) shapes up for the 2005 implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) the future looks promising for entrepreneurs, but a continued unified front among Member States remains important to the CARICOM integration process. These sentiments were underscored by H. E. Mr. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM during…
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Statement by the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to mark CARICOM-Cuba Day, 8 December, 2004
December 8 of each year has been designated by Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and the President of Cuba as CARICOM-Cuba Day. This day marks the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the first four independent CARICOM countries and the Government of Cuba in 1972. That historic act in Caribbean history was celebrated in December 2002…
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