Press Releases
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CARICOM SECRETARY GENERAL ON MISSION TO THE BAHAMAS
Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr Edwin Carrington will lead a delegation on a two-day Briefing Mission to The Bahamas, on 13-14 March 2003. During the mission the Secretary General and his team will meet with high-level government officials, the Opposition, The Bahamas Trade Commission (BTC) and the Bahamian public. In preparation for Hemispheric, multilateral and bilateral trade…
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PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CCJ INCREASING
Public support across the region for the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had risen from 68% in 2000 to 80% in 2002 reported Mr. Sheldon Mc Donald, CCJ Project Coordinator in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. He said that all member states of CARICOM are united in their support for the establishment of the regional Court. Mr…
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STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND STAFF OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE CONTINUING VIOLENT LOSS OF LIFE IN GUYANA
The Secretary-General and staff of the Caribbean Community have been deeply concerned by the difficult times which our Member States have recently been enduring. No issue has concerned us more than the rising crime wave which threatens to envelop the Region. And in this regard, no situation has disturbed us more than that in Guyana, the Headquarters of the Community,…
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CARICOM AND CANADA TRADE MINISTERS MEET IN PORT OF SPAIN
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers will gather in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Monday 10 March 2003 for a one-day meeting with their Canadian counterpart, the Hon. Pierre Pettigrew. Monday’s meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre comes just nine days after CARIFORUM Trade Ministers met with the European Union’s Trade Commissioner Mr Pascal Lamy in Castries,…
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MESSAGE BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF CARICOM ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, 8 MARCH 2003
Once again, as Secretary General of CARICOM, I extend best wishes to the women of the Caribbean Community on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2003. Since my last message in 2002, the world has continued to exist in a state of uncertainty, with the threat of war now ominously in the air. Women around the world have formed a…
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‘Re-Organised’ RNM seen as Model for Developing Countries
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Developing countries continue to express their interest in the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). Many developing countries that lack representation in Geneva and that face financial difficulties associated with individual country representation in negotiating meetings see the benefits of the RNM ‘model’. The RNM ‘model’ has also attracted the attention of the European Union (EU). EU…
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ADDRESS BY SENATOR THE HON. JULIAN R. HUNTE, OBE, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CIVIL AVIATION, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE ACP/EU JOINT MINISTERIAL TRADE COMMITTEE, 1 MARCH 2003, GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA
Co-presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Ministerial Trade Committee Hon. Prime Minister, Hon. Ministers, Delegates, Invited guests, Ladies and gentlemen. I wish to thank you all for being here today ; I wish also, on behalf of the Government and people of St. Lucia, to extend a special welcome to the European delegations, especially Commissioner Pascal Lamy, for whom I know this…
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ADDRESS BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE ACP/EU JOINT MINISTERIAL TRADE COMMITTEE, 1 MARCH 2003, GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA
INTRODUCTION European Union Trade Commissioner, Pascal Lamy, Chairman of ACP Ministerial Trade Committee, Ministerial Chairman of the European Union, Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation, Hon. Julian R. Hunte, Excellencies, Invited Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning. The Government of Saint Lucia is very pleased to be hosting this Fourth Meeting of the ACP/EU Joint Ministerial Trade…
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HUNTE WARNS ON NEGOTIATIONS “WE MUST GET IT RIGHT”
If developing countries “get it wrong” in the current round of global and hemispheric trade negotiations then they could be faced with a steep decline in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This warning was delivered by Senator the Hon. Julian R. Hunte, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation of St Lucia as he addressed the opening session…
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CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (CCJ) INAUGURATION THIS YEAR
Consultations on the establishment of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), and arrangements for the inauguration of the Court, which is scheduled for the latter half of 2003, is expected to commence soon. This was a mandate coming out of the Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of…
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