Press Releases
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RADIO CARICOM TO PROMOTE REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
Radio Caricom will be officially launched at the 25th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government in Grenada on 4 July 2004 It will be established in all Member States over a short period of time with Barbados, Belize, Grenada, and St. Lucia, regarded as “pilot States” in the project, coming online in 2004. Radio Caricom will eventually…
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CARICOM SECRETARIAT STAFF PLAN STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVED SERVICE DELIVERY
Members of staff of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat met in a two-day retreat in Georgetown, Guyana on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 20-21) to devise strategies to assist the Organisation to more effectively and efficiently serve the Region and its people. The retreat was part of an organisational change and refocusing exercise, which is being undertaken in several phases at…
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ADDRESS BY H.E. MR. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE GRADUATION EXERCISE AT THE BISHOP’S HIGH SCHOOL, 30 JUNE 2004, TOBAGO
Acting Principal, Mr. Sebro Members of the School Board Teachers and other members of staff Distinguished Guests The Graduating Class of 2004 Ladies and gentlemen It gives me very special pleasure to have been invited to address today’s Graduation Exercise. Notwithstanding the fact that the Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government to which I am en route,…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR MORE INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Hon. Baldwin Spencer has assured that diplomatic relations between Haiti and many Members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) remain intact, but said that the return to constitutional and democratic processes that underpin Haiti's development are prerequisites for participation in the Councils of the Regional grouping by its newest Member State. Briefing reporters at the…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN SAYS SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY VITAL TO THE PEOPLE
The implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) by 2005 is crucial to the social and economic advancement of the peoples of the Region in an era of increased globalisation and dominance by large economic groupings, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer told staff of the CARICOM Secretariat…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN SAYS SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY VITAL TO THE PEOPLE
The implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) by 2005 is crucial to the social and economic advancement of the peoples of the Region in an era of increased globalisation and dominance by large economic groupings, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer told staff of the CARICOM Secretariat…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL DENIES MEDIA REPORT ON HAITI
CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington today vehemently denied statements attributed to him in an Agence France Presse (AFP) report of 22 June on Haiti's relations with the Community. Mr. Carrington is reported by AFP to have said that the Prime Minister of Haiti's Transitional Government, Mr. Gerard Latortue needed “to reconsider his country's withdrawal from the regional organization” and that “Haiti…
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WORLD TRADE CENTRE/CARIBBEAN CENTRAL AMERICA ACTION/CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT – FLORIDA-CARIBBEAN COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES: POSITI0NING CARIBBEAN BUSINESSES TO COMPETE IN AN FTAA ERA – THE FLORIDA-CARIBBEAN RELATIONSHIP: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE PRESENTED BY MR. BYRON W. BLAKE, CONSULTANT, TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) SECRETARIAT, 23-24 JUNE 2004
Introduction The Florida-Caribbean relationship is both historical and strategic. The Caribbean benefitted in the World War II and post-World War II periods as significant numbers of Caribbean farm workers found employment building the Florida Sugar and Citrus Industries. The strong agrarian Florida economy laid the base for its current dynamic industrial and service-based economy. The new economy has attracted more…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS
The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer, will pay an official visit to the CARICOM Secretariat on 23-25 June 2004. On this, his first official visit to the Secretariat since assuming the Chairmanship of CARICOM earlier this year, Prime Minister Spencer is expected to have a packed programme from the time…
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STATEMENT BY H.E. MR. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, AT SIGNING OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AND INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK FOR THE CARIBBEAN EDUCATION SECTOR HIV/AIDS RESPONSE CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME, 22 JUNE 2004, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
IDB Representative Mr. Sergio Varas Members of Staff of IDB Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat Members of the Press Ladies and Gentlemen Let me take this opportunity on behalf on the Community and the Pan Caribbean Partnership (PANCAP) to express my deepest appreciation to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for providing support to the HIV/AIDS Programme. By the…
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