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  • February 7, 2000
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    EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED UNDER WAY

    Delegates to the Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) have begun deliberating a number of key “bread and butter” issues pertinent to the well-being of the people of the Region. They will map definitive action in response to a number of challenges facing it, at a two-day meeting which began today, 7 February, 2000 at…

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  • February 3, 2000
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    OFFICIALS FINE-TUNE AGENDA FOR EIGHTH MEETING OF COTED

    A range of matters aimed at quickening the pace of, and strengthening the regional integration process in facing-up to the challenges in the new Century will be covered by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials when they meet in Georgetown on the 4-5 February, 2000 to prepare for the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED). The…

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  • February 2, 2000
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    Funding for CARICOM observer mission to Haiti elections

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)/Canada cooperation continues with the signing today Wednesday, 2 February, 2000 of an agreement paving the way for the Regional organisation to receive funding for an electoral observation mission to Haiti in March this year. The agreement for one hundred thousand Canadian dollars was signed by CARICOM Secretary General Mr. Edwin Carrington, and Director General of the…

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  • January 24, 2000
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    CARICOM GETS INTO HIGH GEAR WITH YEAR 2000 ACTIVITIES

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) embarks this week on a busy round of activities of crucial importance to its future development. Officials from the CARICOM Secretariat, including the Secretary-General, Edwin W. Carrington, with representatives of the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) including its Chief Technical Adviser, Sir Alister McIntyre, officials of Member Governments and representatives of the Region’s private sector are in…

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  • January 13, 2000
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    COHSOD URGED TO STEP UP IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS

    The Third Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) got underway in Georgetown today 13 January, 2000 amidst optimism by top officials for the speedy implementation of decisions in the hands of this Council. In the context of the Year 2000, and recent fears about “the millennium bug”, the new chairman of COHSOD, Mr. Damian Greaves, Saint…

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  • January 12, 2000
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    THIRD MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OPENS IN GEORGETOWN

    The Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development takes place in Georgetown, Guyana on 13 and 14 January 2000. The Opening Session will begin at 09:30hrs, in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel. CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin W. Carrington will deliver the Opening Remarks. Other remarks will be made by Hon. Henry Jeffrey, Minister of…

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  • January 10, 2000
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    CARIBBEAN STATISTICIANS FOCUS ON POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUSES

    Statisticians from Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began a 4-day meeting in Georgetown, Guyana today Monday 10th January, 2000. High on the agenda at this the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians are population and housing censuses matters, social and economic statistics relating to matters such as gender, external trade, and the Caribbean Statistical Training…

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  • December 31, 1999
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    CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL’S NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE 2000 : CHANGES, CHALLENGES, RESPONSE.

    Today’s dawning of the year 2000 puts us on the very doorstep of the much- heralded 21st Century and Third Millennium. Not so long ago, these milestones in time were seen as distant landmarks in man’s progress. Today, they are all but here and so are many of the futuristic fantasies associated with the 21st Century. But many of these…

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  • December 30, 1999
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    MONTSERRAT RECEIVES CARICOM GIFT OF LOVE

    The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Chairman, the Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago presented “a CARICOM gift of love” to the people of Montserrat on Wednesday 29 December 1999. In a ceremony at Lookout in the north of the island, attended by His Excellency the Governor of Montserrat, Anthony Abbott, Chief Minister David Brandt and members of his…

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  • December 30, 1999
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    CARICOM VILLAGE – THE IDEAL OF INTEGRATION

    Chief Minister of Montserrat, the Hon. David Brandt described his island’s CARICOM Village as a “monument to CARICOM and the ideal of integration.” The Chief Minister was speaking on Wednesday  at the official handing-over ceremony of the first phase of the Village comprising of 15 three-bedroom units at Lookout in the North of the island. The Chairman of CARICOM, the…

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