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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR) 13-14 MAY 1999, BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
The Second Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) was held in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis on 13-14 May 1999. The Ministers attending were: the Hon. Hilroy Humphreys, Minister of Trade, Commerce and Business Development, Antigua and Barbuda; the Honourable Billie Miller, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados; the Honourable…
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. DR. DENZIL L. DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS & NEVIS, AT THE OCEAN TERRACE INN ON THE OCCASION OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR) Thursday May 13, 1999.
Your Excellency, Dr. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor General, Your Honour Mr. Eustace John and Mrs.John, Members of Cabinet, Honourable Secretary General, Mr. Edwin Carrington, Distinguished Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community and Heads of Delegations, Mr. Speaker, Hon. Walford Gumbs and other Members of the Legislature, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Members of Delegations, Ms. Dorethea Hector, Permanent Secretary and…
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MITCHELL APPEALS FOR SENSE OF URGENCY ON BANANA ISSUE
Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Rt Hon Sir James Mitchell will urge his colleague Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) “to act soon to finalise proposals” to put forward to the European Union (EU) in respect of the changes to the EU’s Banana Regime following the ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Sir…
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CONSENSUS BUILDING ON CSM&E TO START IN THREE MEMBER STATE
A wide range of issues relating to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSM&E) will come under the microscope in at least three Member States of the Caribbean Community in May. In a series of consensus building exercises, officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat’s Programme on the Single Market, the Technical Action Services Unit (TASU) and…
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US AND CARIBBEAN TRADE LINKAGES : FOSTERING PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY : SPEECH BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL ENTREPRENEURS OF THE YEAR GALA ORGANISED BY THE CARIBBEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, 22 APRIL 1999
I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation to the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) for the honour of having selected me as its 1999 “Caribbean Roving Ambassador”. This has confirmed what my wife has long thought of my perpetual travelling. On a more serious note, I take this opportunity to acknowledge her presence here with…
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STATEMENT ON BANANAS ISSUED BY THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 16 APRIL 1999, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at the Sixth Special Meeting of the Conference held on 16 April 1999 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, reviewed the impact on the Caribbean Community of the rulings by the WTO Panel on the revised European Union Banana Regime. As a result of the deliberations, the CARICOM leaders issued the following statement: STATEMENT…
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 16 APRIL 1999, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at the Sixth Special Meeting of the Conference held on 16th April 1999 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, reviewed the impact on the Caribbean Community of the rulings by the WTO Panel on the revised European Union Banana Regime. As a result of the deliberations, the CARICOM leaders issued the following statement: STATEMENT…
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CARICOM TEAM TOURS CHILE FOOD INDUSTRIES
A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat representative is a among a 19-member party of officials from the private and public sectors in Member States and technical support agencies who are making a study tour of Chile's agribusiness sector, during this week. The eight-day mission will focus attention on the productivity of both fresh and processed fruit and vegetables so that the…
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CARICOM LEADERS TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
A Special Meeting of the Conference Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community is being organised to take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Friday, 16 April. This Sixth Special Meeting is being convened to deal with urgent matters of Community interest such as the latest World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the European Union’s (EU) Banana Regime. The…
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CARICOM: Toward Making the Caribbean Whole – By Edwin W. Carrington, Condensed version of the keynote address delivered to the 7th Annual North-East regional Caribbean Students Conference, at MIT, on April 2, 1999
Introduction As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community I wish to express my appreciation to the North East regional Caribbean Students Conference for inviting me to deliver the keynote address at the last such Conference of this Century. I consider it not only an honour but my duty to be here. The title of my address this evening was chosen to…
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