Speeches
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DEMOCRACY IN CARICOM AND IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE : SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE 1ST PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 21 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government, On behalf of the St. Lucia delegation, the delegations of the English-speaking Caribbean, and the delegations of the CARICOM sub-region, I wish to thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the professional and efficient arrangements that the support staff of this summit have afforded to our delegations. The people of Canada…
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CIVIL SOCIETY : PREPARED TEXT FOR REMARKS BY HON. KEITH MITCHELL, PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA AT THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Your Excellency, Prime Minister Jean Cretien, Heads of States and Governments, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Mr. Chairman I feel particularly privileged today to speak at this historic Summit that highlights the importance of the process of democracy and good governance. This is so, as Grenada has gone through the process of a revolutionary dictatorial system in the period 1979…
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REMARKS ON “A HEMISPHERIC COMMUNITY FOR A GLOBAL AGE” BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE OWEN ARTHUR, CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
I address you today in the name of the people of the Caribbean Community. In that spirit, I am pleased to recognise that the enterprise we are engaged in today in Quebec City began in the Caribbean almost two centuries ago. For it was in Jamaica in 1815 that the great apostle of freedom, Simon Bolivar, wrote in his famous…
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THE OECD TAX IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME: SPEAKING NOTES BY THE HON LESTER B. BIRD, PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ON BEHALF OF THE CARIBBEAN STATES AT A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
Mr President Let me first join my colleagues in expressing our appreciation to you and Secretary of State Powell for this opportunity to exchange views with you on issues of mutual importance. I have been asked to present our case with regard to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its harmful tax competition scheme. This scheme poses…
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MESSAGE FROM CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL, MR. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, 8 MARCH 2001
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) once again joins with the rest of the international community in commemorating the United Nations designated International Women's Day. This occasion provides an opportunity to recognize the significant role women have played in the life, livelihood and sustainability of our Region and indeed, in other parts of the world and to record our appreciation therefor. During…
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RESHAPING OUR WORLD : REMARKS BY THE HON. A J NICHOLSON, ATTORNEY-GENERAL, JAMAICA AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE, 14 FEBRUARY 2001, ST. MICHAEL, BARBADOS
At the Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Georgetown, Guyana in July 1986, the then Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt Hon Errol Barrow, asserted that it was the “collective wisdom” of the Caribbean people that would make for unity and integration within the Community. He was however, adamant that: “the promise of the regional integration movement,…
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CLAIMING THE DREAM : REMARKS DELIVERED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA AT THE SIGNING CEREMONY OF THE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE, 14 FEBRUARY 2001, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS
Chairman, The cultural history of the Caribbean reveals that its artists are usually the main repositories of its dreams and so, it is only fitting that the words of Saint Lucian poet Kendel Hippolyte should preface my remarks to you today. “Island in the sun my father’s hand stained with your soil has never owned you so, I am claiming…
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