Press Releases
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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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Toast Proposed by Amb. Lolita Applewhaite, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM on the Occasion of the Celebration of CARICOM-Cuba Day, 8 December, 2004
Today we celebrate CARICOM-Cuba Day as mandated by Heads of State and Government of the Member States of the Caribbean Community and Cuba on 8 December 2002. That decision was taken on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment in 1972 of diplomatic relations between the then four independent states of the Region and the Government of Cuba.…
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CARICOM and Cuba to Celebrate Thirty-Two Years of Relations
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington will lead a five member delegation to Cuba on Tuesday 7 December, to participate in activities to mark CARICOM/Cuba Day. The special observance, which was inaugurated in 2002 at the time of the signing of the Havana Declaration, will be commemorated on Wednesday, 8 December with a series of activities in…
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