Press Releases
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ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE S.R. INSANALLY, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, GUYANA, TO THE FIFTH MEETING
Honourable Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of COHSOD Honourable Ministers Mr. Secretary-General Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very pleased, on behalf of the President, the Government and people of Guyana, to welcome you all to this Fifth Meeting of the Council on Human and Social Development. I know that air travel is not easy…
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CARICOM HEADS HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING
CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington announced in Georgetown today that The Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, Chairman of CARICOM, will host an Emergency Session of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas on 11-12 October, to discuss the impact on the Region of the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States. The Heads of Government are expected…
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CONSULTING THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY ON THE REGION’S AGENDA
A cross-section of interest groups in Trinidad and Tobago, Member State of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will be afforded the opportunity to contribute to the regional strategy for taking the integration movement forward at a national consultation slated for tomorrow in the Trinidadian capital, Port-of-Spain. The twin-island Republic private and public sectors, Labour, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other interest groups…
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UPSTAGING HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT – COHSOD V
The Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), an Organ of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), will examine proposals aimed at refashioning the Region’s 1997 human resource development strategy as it places emphasis on human capital development in the Community at its Fifth Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana. The Meeting gets underway at the Le Meridien, Pegasus, on 3 October 2001, considering…
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STATEMENT FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS IN THE USA ON 11 SEPTEMBER, 2001
CARICOM Governments and people have, over the past week, expressed their horror and disgust at the tragic and premeditated acts of terrorism which took place in the United States of America on 11 September. We condemn these dastardly acts which rank among the most reprehensible that have been afflicted on the innocent in modern times. These attacks have plunged our…
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CARICOM SECRETARY GENERAL EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF JUDGE EDWARD LAING OF BELIZE.
The Caribbean Community Secretariat has been informed about the death on 11 September 2001 in Belize of Judge Edward A. Laing, Member of the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea and former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations, the Organisation of American States, and High Commissioner to Canada, at the age of 59. An intellect of…
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JAPAN TO HOST FIRST CARIBBEAN TRADE, TOURISM AND CULTURAL FAIR
Preparations for the historic Caribbean Trade, Tourism and Cultural Fair billed to run for four days in Tokyo, Japan next year, moved into high gear with the Region's processed food and beverage manufacturers, and the public and private sectors getting ready for what promises to be a grand Caribbean exposition. The Caribbean exposition is mooted as the stepping stone to…
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CARICOM SUBSTANCE ABUSE REDUCTION FORUM
A two-day Regional Demand Reduction Forum opens at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Georgetown, Guyana-based Headquarters on Monday 17 September 2001, bringing together governmental and non governmental agencies from across the Region to set out a new course of action against the scourge of substance abuse which threatens to consume the entire Region. The Forum is also expected to advise the…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE OCCASION OF THE DEVASTATION WHICH TOOK PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY AND OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, D.C., 11 SEPTEMBER 2001
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) learnt with great horror and dismay of the tragedy of unprecedented and unexpected magnitude which occurred on 11 September 2001 in the United States of America. The thousands of lives lost and countless others injured, the continuing search for those missing, and the impact of this traumatic day on the United States of America and its…
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REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, TO THE FIRST JOINT
Ministers Officials Representatives from the Private Sectors Good morning. It is with extraordinary pleasure that I welcome you to this institutionally historic Joint Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) to establish the Programmes for the Removal of Restrictions on the Right of Establishment, Provision of Services and the…
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