Press Releases
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CARIFORUM/EU PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
A number of pressing issues relating to the continued support of European Union funding for projects and programmes in the Caribbean will be high on the agenda when a series of meetings convened by Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (CARIFORUM), gets underway in Saint Lucia from 15-19 October 2001. Officials and Ministers from the Caribbean will deliberate…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE PASSING OF THE HONOURABLE PHILLIP STANLEY WILBERFORCE GOLDSON
It was with great sadness that the Caribbean Community learnt of the death of the Honourable Phillip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson, former Minister of Government of Belize, on Wednesday October 3, 2001 at 78 years of age. On behalf of the Caribbean Community, the Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat and on my own behalf, I wish to extend deepest condolences to…
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CONSULTING WITH THE PEOPLE OF ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES ON THE WAY FORWARD FOR CARICOM
The sixth National Consultation of the Region’s Civil Society will get underway tomorrow in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines capital, bring together a cross section of the local population to elaborate a people’s vision of the Caribbean Community. The Forum is expected to attract private and public sector interests, persons involved in human resource development, representatives of the trade…
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED ON THE CONCLUSION OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 3-5 OCTOBER 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
The Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) was held at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Georgetown Guyana, 3-5 October 2001 under the distinguished Chairmanship of the Hon Girlyn Miguel, Minister of Social Development, Cooperatives, Family, Gender and Ecclesiastical Affairs, St Vincent and the Grenadines. Heads of Delegation in attendance were the Hon Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister…
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REMARKS OF MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT , GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, 3 OCTOBER 2001.
It is a special pleasure for me, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to welcome you to the Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD). This Council is one of the critical organs of the Community. In focusing as it does on vital areas such as education, health, youth, sport, gender and culture, it is concerned…
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ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE S.R. INSANALLY, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, GUYANA, TO THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 3 OCTOBER, 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
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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REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 3 OCTOBER 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It is a special pleasure for me, as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, to welcome you to the Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD). This Council is one of the critical organs of the Community. In focusing as it does on vital areas such as education, health, youth, sport, gender and culture, it is concerned…
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OPENING REMARKS DELIVERED BY AMBASSADOR ANTHONY SEVERIN, OF SAINT LUCIA, AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 3 OCTOBER 2001, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
I am pleased to lead my country’s delegation to this Fifth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and to bring greetings to you in our capacity as its out going Chair. At our national COHSOD this year, the social sector Ministers and Technical Advisors had an opportunity to review the development of this Council over the…
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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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