Speeches
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STATEMENT HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTIETH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) : STRATEGIC ISSUES IN EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, 2 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
The Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belize and Chairman of the COTED Hon Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Coordinator of the Ministerial Negotiators The Hon Anthony Hylton, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica – Our Host Minister Other Distinguished Ministers Director-General of the…
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WELCOME REMARKS BY HON. ANTHONY HYLTON, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE, JAMAICA, AT THE TWENTIETH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) : STRATEGIC ISSUES IN EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, 2 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
It is always a pleasure to welcome you, my colleague Ministers, officials and staff of the CARICOM Secretariat to Jamaica. We are meeting this time in the second city of Montego Bay and I urge you to take some time to explore – this is a rapidly growing city and you will, no doubt, see the very real impact of…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE TWENTIETH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) : STRATEGIC ISSUES IN EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, 2 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
The Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Belize and Chairman of the COTED Hon Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados and Coordinator of the Ministerial Negotiators The Hon Anthony Hylton, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica – Our Host Minister Other Distinguished Ministers Director-General of the…
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CARICOM WELCOMES WORLD BANK DECISION TO PROVIDE GRANTS TO HAITI
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the announcement by the World Bank of 30 January 2007 that its Board of Executive Directors had discussed a new Interim Strategy for Haiti which projects financial assistance of up to US$82 million in grants over the next 18 months to support Haiti’s development agenda as well as two…
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CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE DEATH OF MR. CECIL GRIFFITH, A.A., JOURNALIST
It is with deep regret that I have learnt of the passing of veteran Guyanese journalist, Mr. Cecil Griffith A.A. As a journalist with the then Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), and later, the Voice of America, Mr. Griffith, in his heyday, was one of the tenacious regional journalists who covered the CARICOM ‘beat’. His relinquishing of the beat years ago…
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STATEMENT BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE CARICOM SINGLE DOMESTIC SPACE, 1 FEBRUARY 2007
The Single Domestic Space comprising 10 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be inaugurated today. The Single Domestic Space was created to meet the challenges of Cricket World Cup 2007 which the Caribbean will host from March 4 to April 28. The Caribbean is the smallest region to host such a mega-event. To mark the historic occasion, CARICOM Secretary General…
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STATEMENT BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE CARICOM SINGLE DOMESTIC SPACE, 1 FEBRUARY 2007
The Single Domestic Space comprising 10 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be inaugurated today. The Single Domestic Space was created to meet the challenges of Cricket World Cup 2007 which the Caribbean will host from March 4 to April 28. The Caribbean is the smallest region to host such a mega-event. To mark the historic occasion, CARICOM Secretary General…
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JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOURTH GENERAL MEETING BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM, 25-26 JANUARY 2007, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
1. The Fourth General Meeting between the United Nations system and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and its associated institutions was convened at the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana during 25-26 January 2007. The UN delegation was led by the Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the Department of Economic and Social…
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MESSAGE DELIVERED BY MR. KWAME SUNDARAM JOMO, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), ON BEHALF OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL, AT THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH GENERAL MEETING BETWEEN THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 25 JANUARY 2007, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
I am delighted to send my warmest greetings to all participants in the Fourth General Meeting between representatives of the Caribbean Community and the United Nations. CARICOM is an important contributor to the UN’s work in the Caribbean region. The UN, for its part, remains strongly committed to helping your members address concerns like poverty, drug trafficking, crime and HIV/AIDS.…
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MORE MEMBER STATES USING THE NEW CARICOM PASSPORT
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Come Monday, 29 January, 2007, Grenada will become the eighth Member State to have introduced the CARICOM Passport. The introduction by Grenada means that more than half of the 15-member Caribbean Community will have introduced the CARICOM Passport to nationals. On Thursday, 24 January 2007, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago became the seventh…
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