Speeches
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL SUB-COMMITTEES ON EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE CSME, 5-6 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
The Most Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Trade Negotiations The Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CSME The Honourable Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Barbados and Other Distinguished Ministers Other Heads of Delegations…
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WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE MOST HON. PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER, O.N., M.P., PRIME MINISTER, JAMAICA, TO THE JOINT MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL SUB-COMMITTEES ON EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY, 5 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
Colleague Prime Ministers Heads of Delegations Ministers of Trade CARICOM Secretary General Senior Officials and Members of the CARICOM Secretariat Ambassador Bernal and Members of the Regional Negotiating Machinery Delegates Members of the media I welcome you warmly to Montego Bay – the complete resort. Jamaica is a country in transition and expansion. Our second city Montego Bay, is in…
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STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL SUB-COMMITTEES ON EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE CSME, 5-6 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
The Most Honourable Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Trade Negotiations The Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CSME The Honourable Billie Miller, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Barbados and Other Distinguished Ministers Other Heads of Delegations…
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WELCOME ADDRESS BY THE MOST HON. PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER, O.N., M.P., PRIME MINISTER, JAMAICA, TO THE JOINT MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL SUB-COMMITTEES ON EXTERNAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AND THE CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY, 5 FEBRUARY 2007, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA
Colleague Prime Ministers Heads of Delegations Ministers of Trade CARICOM Secretary General Senior Officials and Members of the CARICOM Secretariat Ambassador Bernal and Members of the Regional Negotiating Machinery Delegates Members of the media I welcome you warmly to Montego Bay – the complete resort. Jamaica is a country in transition and expansion. Our second city Montego Bay, is in…
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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 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 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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