Press Releases
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STATEMENT BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF WORLD AIDS DAY, DECEMBER 1, 1999
Today, World AIDS Day, we focus on one of the most pressing issues of concern in the Caribbean and the wider world: the increasing number of persons infected with the deadly virus HIV/AIDS. This year’s theme of “Listen, Learn, and Live” calls on all of us to listen to children and young people, learn from one another about respect, participation,…
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CARICOM COMMUNITY MOURNS PASSING OF PROFESSOR DOUGLAS HALL
The Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has learnt with great sadness of the passing of Dr. Douglas Hall, Professor of History at the University of the West Indies. Professor Hall, a Jamaican, was a distinguished Historian at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies and many of the Secretariat’s staff, including the Secretary-General had the good…
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF SADC AND CARICOM HOLD CONSULTATIONS
The Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, Dr. Kaire Mbuende, held consultations with the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin Carrington, in Gaborone, Botswana, on 16 November 1999. The Chief Executives were accompanied by their Senior Officials. The consultations were held in the context of the follow-up to the first meeting between the Ministers of…
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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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