Press Releases
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REGIONAL OFFICIALS DISCUSS STRATEGY FOR ILLICIT DRUGS
The first ever Joint Meeting of the Inter-Governmental Task Force on Drugs and Ministers of National Security got underway on Wednesday 22 September at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Headquarters with a challenge to Member States to mount integrated programmes involving punishment, prevention, and rehabilitation, to battle the growing trade in illicit drugs in the Region. Speaking at the opening…
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YOUTH EXPLOSION LAUNCHED IN THE BAHAMAS
The Caribbean Youth Explosion will be launched in Nassau, The Bahamas on Friday,18 September 1998 with a ceremony at the Nassau Marriott Hotel. This unique event will involve more than 100 young people between the ages of 13 and 30 from Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Commonwealth Caribbean including Canada. With the theme “Making Choices, Taking…
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CARICOM CARES ABOUT GUYANA – CHAIRMAN, DR. THE HON. KENNY ANTHONY
The pace of the constitutional reform process in Guyana has been given added impetus following agreement by all parties to the terms of reference of a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) appointed Facilitator. Agreement to the terms came after the Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Dr. the Hon. Kenny Anthony held discussions with leaders of the political parties in…
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REGULATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT IN MONTSERRAT
The Government of Montserrat is taking steps to regularise employment opportunities for CARICOM nationals in that country. The following outlines the procedures to be followed by suitably qualified CARICOM nationals seeking employment in Montserrat. In recent times, nationals of several overseas countries arriving in Montserrat to access employment opportunities, have been refused entry because they do not fulfil entry requirements.…
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN VISITS GUYANA
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr the Hon. Kenny D Anthony is scheduled to arrive in Guyana on Sunday, September 13 for a one-day visit. The purpose of Dr Anthony’s visit is to met with the parties who are signatories to the Herdmanston Accord and the Saint Lucia Statement, the two CARICOM-brokered documents which set…
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, 7-10 SEPTEMBER 1998, NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS
The Second Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee comprising Hon. Ministers responsible for Legal Affairs and Attorneys-General of the Caribbean Community was convened in Nassau, The Bahamas from 7-10 September 1998. The Welcome Address was delivered by the Honourable Tennyson Wells, Attorney-General of The Bahamas and incoming Chairman of the Committee. The Hon. David Simmons, Q.C., M.P., Attorney-General and Minister…
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SIR JAMES LEADS CARICOM LEADERS’ MISSION TO ST KITTS/NEVIS
Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines the Rt Hon Sir James Mitchell and the Prime Minister of Dominica, the Hon Edison James are in St Kitts/Nevis holding discussions with the principals involved in the secession issue. The Prime Ministers, accompanied by Ambassador Kingsley Lane of St Vincent and the Grenadines arrived in Basseterre on Wednesday for a two…
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CARICOM HOSTS SERVICES WORKSHOP
The CARICOM Secretariat in conjunction with the Caribbean Export Development Agency will be mounting a three-day workshop on Trade-in-Services at the Caribee Hotel, Barbados from Wednesday, September 9, 1998. The workshop is aimed at assisting participants in the field of services in coming to grips with the legal requirements for Trade in Services as well as the Region’s commitments under…
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STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE SPECIAL MEETING OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN FORUM (CARIFORUM) OF AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC (ACP) STATES, 20-22 AUGUST 1998, SANTO DOMINGO DE GUZMAN, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
THE STATEMENT OF SANTO DOMINGOTHE CARIBBEAN ENCOUNTER: TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY Heads of State and Government of the Caribbean Forum of ACP States(CARIFORUM), the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and leaders of elegation of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines;…
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CARICOM , SADC FORMALISE RELATIONS : JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE MEETING BETWEEN FOREIGN MINISTERS
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs and representatives of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and their Secretariats met in Durban South Africa on 1st September 1998. SADC was represented by Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zambia, Zimbabwe ans South Africa. CARICOM was represented by Suriname, St. Lucia, Jamaica,…
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