Press Releases
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CARICOM LEADERS LOOK TO THE 21ST CENTURY
A Vision for the Community in the 21st Century will be the main focus of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community when it convenes for the Seventh Special Meeting in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago on October 26-27, 1999. It will be an unprecedented fourth Meeting of the Conference in a calendar year and the last for…
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Caribbean Charter On Health and Ageing to be launched at COHSOD Opening
A range of social issues influencing life in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be addressed when CARICOM Ministers on the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meet in Guyana on the 20th and 21st October, 1999. The Third Meeting of The Council will address matters relating to the Free Movement of Skills and People in the Region, and Sport…
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ACCP SUPPORTS CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
Representatives at the Second Sitting of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP), which ended in Grenada on Friday, have come out in support of the Caribbean Court of Justice. The two-day session, which was held at the Convention Centre of the Grenada Grand Beach Resort, received an invitation from Belize to host the Third Sitting in the fourth quarter…
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Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians. RESOLUTION ON GUYANA-VENEZUELA RELATIONS, 15 October 1999, GRENADA
WHEREAS Venezuela continues to advance her claim to the Essequibo Region of Guyana, a claim which amounts to no less than five-eighths of Guyana’s territory; AND WHEREAS this claim completely disregards the fact that the existing boundary was defined by the unanimous judgment of an international arbitral tribunal given in Paris in 1899, and jointly demarcated on the ground by…
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MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE FROM MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE DEATH OF H.E. JULIUS K. NYERERE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF TANZANIA
It is with profound sadness that the Caribbean Community received the news that His Excellency Julius K. Nyerere, former President of Tanzania, had succumbed to his illness on Wednesday, 13 October 1999. Dr. Nyerere, one of Africa’s and the Third World’s leading statesmen of the post-colonial period, endeared himself to the peoples of Africa and all emerging nations with his…
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PUBLIC EDUCATION ON CSME FOR GUYANA
The Region-wide series of public education workshops which touches on a wide range of issues relating to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will continue in Guyana during this month. The exercises which started in May, 1999, have already been held in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, St.Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia. It involved…
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REGIONAL CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT FORGES AHEAD
Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are to benefit from a programme aimed at imparting new financial skills which will, among other things, expand investment options for everyone across the Region. Representatives from a cross-section of financial institutions including stock exchanges, central banks, securities commissions, Ministries of Finance, and the Brokers’ Community will attend a Financial Engineering Workshop, 15-25…
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STATEMENT ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 8 OCTOBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
The Seventh Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) was held at the Headquarters of the Community on 8 October 1999. The Meeting was very positive and reached a number of important conclusions. Held under the Chairmanship of Antigua and Barbuda, the COTED took the opportunity to assess the status of the effort to complete the…
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OPENING STATEMENT BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE SECOND SITTING OF THE ASSEMBLY OF CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY PARLIAMENTARIANS (ACCP), 14 OCTOBER 1999, ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA
Senator the Hon. Dr. John Watts, Deputy to the Governor-General of Grenada; Dr. the Hon. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada; Hon. Sir Curtis Strachan, Speaker of the Assembly, and the House of Representatives of Grenada; Hon Ralph Maraj, Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, representing the Hon. Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Chairman of the Conference of…
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WORKING GROUP TO OVERSEE IMPLEMENTATION OF CARICOM AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY
Further progress is being made on the move to protect the entitlement of workers in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to social security benefits, and to provide equality of treatment when they move from one Member State to another. Persons who have worked in different Member States of CARICOM, and think they qualify for benefits under the CARICOM Agreement on Social…
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