Speeches
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CARIBBEAN PARLIAMENT MEETS IN GRENADA
The second session of the Assembly of Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP) will convene in Grenada on October 14, 1999. The two day-session will bring together parliamentarians from the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) 15 Member States as well as the three Associate Member States to discuss matters relevant to the strengthening of the regional integration movement. Each Member State of CARICOM is…
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PRESIDENT JOINS SECRETARIAT STAFF IN PAYING RESPECTS TO COLLEAGUE
His Excellency, the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo was a welcome surprise guest at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at which members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat remembered their colleague, Ms Silvana Jordan. The President gave his personal reminiscences of his friend Silvana Jordan with whom he had attended Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, Russia 16 years ago.…
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STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF MS SILVANA JORDAN
Ms Silvana Jordan, Senior Project Officer, Communications Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat died in a vehicular accident on Monday September 20, 1999. Ms Jordan, 36, who joined the Secretariat in June1996, was the first Surinamese national to be employed at the Secretariat following the accession of Suriname to membership of the Caribbean Community and Common Market in July…
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CANADA SUPPORTS GUYANA’S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
The good relations between Canada and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were once again demonstrated when that country made a presentation of 100,000 Canadian Dollars to assist in the work of the constitutional reform process in CARICOM Member State, Guyana. At a simple ceremony on Thursday, 9 September, at the CARICOM Secretariat’s Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana , H.E. Mr. Kamoji Wachiira,…
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MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, ON THE PASSING
It was with deep regret that the staff of the CARICOM Secretariat and the wider Caribbean Community have learnt of the untimely passing of Mr. Charles P. Kennard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Rice Development Board. Mr. Kennard’s contribution to the rice industry is well-known throughout the Caribbean and further afield. Mr. Kennard was particularly valued for…
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OPENING STATEMENT BY US DELEGATION CHIEF JOHN R. HAMILTON, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS, AT THE THIRD MEETING OF THE US-CARIBBEAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE AND ENVIRONMENT, 22 JULY, 1999, WASHINGTON, D.C.
It is a pleasure for the Assistant Administrator of AID, Mark Schneider, and me to welcome all of you to Washington to attend the third meeting of this Committee. Beyond the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development, our delegation includes experts from a broad spectrum of US agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Commerce and Labor;…
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REMARKS BY MARK L. SCHNEIDER, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR BUREAU FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN AT THE SECOND ANNUAL JOINT REVIEW OF THE BRIDGETOWN ACCORD, 22 JULY 1999, WASHINGTON, D.C.
I am very pleased to participate in the third meeting of the US-Caribbean Joint Committee on Department, Finance, and the Environment. Since the signing of the Bridgetown Accord just over two years ago, USAID has played a key role in assisting both the USG and the Caribbean governments pursue our joint commitments under the Accord. The extra ordinarily high degree…
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SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN CARICOM TREATY AMENDMENT
By the end of the year the legal framework for the functioning of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) should be in place. This announcement was made by the Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honourable Owen Arthur, on Monday July 5, the first working day of the 20th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean…
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CARICOM SUPPORT FOR MONTSERRAT
The Chief Minister of Montserrat, the Honourable David Brandt, has praised his CARICOM colleagues for the support given to Montserrat. He specifically referred to the building of houses on the island since the disruption caused by the Lang Soufriere volcano. Speaking on the first working day of the 20th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean…
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OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE TWENTIETH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 4 JULY 1999, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Your Excellency Arthur N.R. Robinson, OCC, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago The Hon. Basdeo Panday, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government Other Distinguished Heads of State and Government Distinguished Prime Minister of Spain President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago Hon. Speaker of the House of Trinidad…
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