Press Releases
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WORKSHOP ON COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY FOR T & T
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is part of a team which will be hosting a Regional Workshop on Competition Law and Policy on 12 and 13 October, 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. The University of the West Indies(UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are the other institutions behind the programme. The…
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STATEMENT OF MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE PASSING OF MR. FRANK RAMPERSAD
It is with deep sadness that I learnt of the passing on Monday, 4 October 1999, of Frank Rampersad, national of Trinidad and Tobago and committed citizen of the Caribbean Community. An economist by profession, Frank Rampersad, with whom I had the pleasure of working for a short time at the Planning Unit of the Prime Minister’s Office, was of…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE TWENTY SECOND SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES, 28 SEPTEMBER 1999, NEW YORK
Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region – the Caribbean. Held as it was in Barbados – a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community – the 1994 SIDS Conference and the resultant Barbados Plan of…
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GREETINGS FROM THE CARICOM SECRETARY GENERAL ON CARIBBEAN YOUTH DAY, 30 SEPT 1999
Since 1985, Caribbean countries have observed September 30 as Caribbean Youth Day. On those occasions the Region has organised a range of activities and programmes to mark the occasion and to promote the Region’s Youth. These activities have involved schools, Youth-related organisations and the general public, and have been designed to showcase the attributes and achievements of the Region’s young…
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CARIBBEAN PARLIAMENT MEETS IN GRENADA
The second session of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) will convene in Grenada on October 14, 1999. The two day-session will bring together parliamentarians from the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) 15 Member States as well as the three Associate Member States to discuss matters relevant to the strengthening of the regional integration movement. Each Member State of CARICOM is…
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PRESIDENT JOINS SECRETARIAT STAFF IN PAYING RESPECTS TO COLLEAGUE
His Excellency, the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo was a welcome surprise guest at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at which members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat remembered their colleague, Ms Silvana Jordan. The President gave his personal reminiscences of his friend Silvana Jordan with whom he had attended Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, Russia 16 years ago.…
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STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF MS SILVANA JORDAN
Ms Silvana Jordan, Senior Project Officer, Communications Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat died in a vehicular accident on Monday September 20, 1999. Ms Jordan, 36, who joined the Secretariat in June1996, was the first Surinamese national to be employed at the Secretariat following the accession of Suriname to membership of the Caribbean Community and Common Market in July…
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CANADA SUPPORTS GUYANA’S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
The good relations between Canada and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were once again demonstrated when that country made a presentation of 100,000 Canadian Dollars to assist in the work of the constitutional reform process in CARICOM Member State, Guyana. At a simple ceremony on Thursday, 9 September, at the CARICOM Secretariat’s Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana , H.E. Mr. Kamoji Wachiira,…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, ON THE PASSING
It was with deep regret that the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat and the wider Caribbean Community have learnt of the untimely passing of Mr. Charles P. Kennard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Rice Development Board. Mr. Kennard’s contribution to the rice industry is well-known throughout the Caribbean and further afield. Mr. Kennard was particularly valued for…
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GUYANA : DIALOGUE BETWEEN MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES RESUME
After a preliminary meeting on 14 June 1999, the Dialogue resumed on 9 August 1999. The following consolidated agenda was agreed: Agenda Items for Discussion between PPP/Civic and PNC as at 16 August 1999 PNC’s List PPP/C’s List Victimisation and Discrimination Composition of State Boards, Commissions and Committees Land and House Lots Distribution Parliamentary Reform Reinstatement of Public Officers Tender…
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