Press Releases
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NEW IN-HOUSE TRAINING SERVICE FOR CARICOM SECRETARIAT STAFF
Staff of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat are benefitting from a new in-house training facility, the Learning Resource Centre (LRC), which is intended to strengthen the capability of the executive arm of the Caribbean Community. The implementation of the project was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) within the Extension of the Caribbean Regional Institutional Strengthening Project (CRISP).…
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YOUTH IN THE REGIONAL INTEGRATION MOVEMENT
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is moving closer to having an inter-sectoral agenda for youth in the regional integration movement. A draft regional strategy for youth development, which is intended to engage them in promoting their own cause headlines the agenda for a meeting of CARICOM Directors of Youth scheduled for 7-9 May in Trinidad and Tobago. The Port-of-Spain meeting is…
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CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL IN JAMAICA FOR CCJ PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Mr Edwin Carrington, has re-emphasised that establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is imperative to the creation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The Secretary-General, who is in Jamaica for a week long series of public education programmes, 24-30 April 2001 to build public awareness of the CCJ, stressed that dialogue…
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MESSAGE FROM THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION ON THE FIRST WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY – APRIL 26, 2001
Creating the Future Today – this is the theme of the first World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2001. Four words that underscore the importance of innovators and artists to the development and growth of societies everywhere. We owe the inventions, designs and works of art that ease our workload, improve our living conditions and enrich and beautify our…
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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICIAL MEETS CARICOM DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
Mr. Richard Wilkinson, The Director for the Americas of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the United Kingdom, and H.E. Mr. Richard Glover, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to Guyana, on 25 April, 2001 paid a courtesy call on Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr. Carla Barnett. During the visit, the officials discussed the role and functions…
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“CREATING PROSPERITY” : SPEECH BY HON. LESTER B. BIRD, PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, AT THE SECOND PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr. Chairman, each of us is here as a representative of people. Some may be called Canadians, others Antiguans, yet others Americans. They are all people with basic aspirations to live a life in freedom, to raise their children, to feed them properly, give them education, good housing and health care. Our goal here should not be to seek an…
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STATEMENT REGARDING THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY’S SUPPORT FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF H.E. MR. KOFI ANNAN TO
Foreign Ministers of the Countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) namely Antigua and Barbuda, etc. pay tribute to His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan for his dedicated service to the international community during his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations especially in the area of international peace and security, the eradication of poverty, sustainable economic development in the context of…
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DEMOCRACY IN CARICOM AND IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE : SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE 1ST PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 21 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government, On behalf of the St. Lucia delegation, the delegations of the English-speaking Caribbean, and the delegations of the CARICOM sub-region, I wish to thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the professional and efficient arrangements that the support staff of this summit have afforded to our delegations. The people of Canada…
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CIVIL SOCIETY : PREPARED TEXT FOR REMARKS BY HON. KEITH MITCHELL, PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA AT THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Your Excellency, Prime Minister Jean Cretien, Heads of States and Governments, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Mr. Chairman I feel particularly privileged today to speak at this historic Summit that highlights the importance of the process of democracy and good governance. This is so, as Grenada has gone through the process of a revolutionary dictatorial system in the period 1979…
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REMARKS ON “A HEMISPHERIC COMMUNITY FOR A GLOBAL AGE” BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE OWEN ARTHUR, CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
I address you today in the name of the people of the Caribbean Community. In that spirit, I am pleased to recognise that the enterprise we are engaged in today in Quebec City began in the Caribbean almost two centuries ago. For it was in Jamaica in 1815 that the great apostle of freedom, Simon Bolivar, wrote in his famous…
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