Press Releases
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CARICOM APPLAUDS FAO INITIATIVE “TELEFOOD ‘99” IN JAMAICA
Jamaica will host, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Third Annual Telefood Concert on November 28, 1999. This unique event, born out of the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, is to mobilise solidarity for the fight against hunger and raise funds to support grassroots projects in developing countries. It is being staged for the first time in…
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CARICOM LOOKS TO DEEPEN CO-OPERATION WITH LATIN AMERICA
His Excellency the President of Suriname, Jules Wijdenbosch told the IX Ibero-American Summit in Havana, Cuba that the Caribbean Community looked forward to developing and strengthening deeper relations with the Ibero-American countries. President Wijdenbosch, a member of the Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was mandated by CARICOM Leaders at their Seventh Special Meeting in Port of…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON ON THE PASSING OF MR. MALCOLM MARSHALL
The people of the Caribbean Community and the fraternity of cricket lovers everywhere have lost one of their heroes. Malcolm Denzil Marshall was one of the Ambassadors of Sport who with his colleagues in the great West Indies Cricket Team of the nineteen seventies and eighties inspired the deepest admiration and epitomised the highest aspirations of West Indian people everywhere.…
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STATEMENT ON THE INTENDED WITHDRAWAL OF CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE FROM GRENADA AS A PORT OF CALL
The Caribbean Community is deeply disturbed to learn of a decision by Carnival Cruise Line to cease calling at Port St. George’s, Grenada with virtually immediate effect. Carnival is the largest cruise line calling at Grenadian ports, and accounts for approximately half of the cruise passengers to the country. Such a cessation of its cruise activity will therefore create a…
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SEVENTH CARICOM – JAPAN CONSULTATION, 8-9 NOVEMBER
The Seventh Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-Japan Consultation was held in Georgetown, Guyana, on 8-9 November 1999. The Japanese Delegation was headed by Mr. Takahiko Horimura, Director-General of the Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan and the Delegation of CARICOM Member States was headed by H.E Ms. Elisabeth Harper, Director, Department of the Americas and Asia, Ministry…
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SEVENTH CARICOM/JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 8 NOVEMBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Co-Chairs, His Excellency Director General Takahiko Horimura of Japan and Her Excellency Elisabeth Harper of Guyana Other Distinguished Members of the Japanese Delegation Other Distinguished Members of the Delegation of CARICOM Member States and Associate Institutions Members of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen: On this highly symbolic day, Diwali – the Hindu festival of Light – it is for me…
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OPENING REMARKS DELIVERED BY HER EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR ELIZABETH HARPER DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF THE AMERICAS AND ASIA, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, GUYANA AT THE SEVENTH CARICOM/JAPAN CONSULTATIONS, 8 NOVEMBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Mr Takahiko Horimura, Co-Chair, Director-General of the Latin-American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Distinguished Delegates of Japan and the Caribbean Community Ladies and GentlemenMembers of the Media On behalf of the Government of Guyana, it is now my pleasure to extend a very warm and cordial welcome to the delegations attending…
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STRENGTHENING CARICOM/JAPAN COOPERATION
The bonds of cooperation between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Japan will be further strengthened when their representatives meet in Georgetown, Guyana for their Seventh Consultation on 8-9 November 1999. During the first round of the two-day meeting, the deliberations will be directed at a range of policy issues including the CARICOM/Japan Economic Technical Cooperation and Cultural Exchange in which…
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CARICOM AND SPAIN START NEW RELATIONSHIP
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Spain are poised to start an exciting new phase in their relationship. This is the result of a two-day seminar at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago which ended on Saturday October 30, 1999. The CARICOM Secretariat, Latin American Economic System (SELA), and the Spanish Agency for International Co-Operation…
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Remarks by Dr. Carla Barnett, Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, at the Opening Session oF THE CARICOM/AECI/SELA MEETING: SPAIN AND CARICOM “TOWARDS A NEW DYNAMISM IN BILATERAL RELATIONS”, 29-30 October 1999, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
The Hon. Ralph Maraj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Ambassador Fernando de la Serna Mr Juan Sell Other Members of the Spanish Delegation Representatives of Member States of CARICOM Other Delegates and Colleagues It is a pleasure for me to be here this morning to participate in the opening of this first high-level meeting…
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