Speeches
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Welcome Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary -General, Caribbean Community At The Opening Ceremony Of The Third High –Level Forum on Donor Coordination Georgetown, Guyana 30 July 2013
I wish to extend a very warm welcome to all participants to the Third High-Level Forum on Donor Coordination. The last High-Level Forum was in July 2011 and much has transpired since. The gap between these Meetings has been too long but I am sure that over the next day and a half we will make up for the time…
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STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY OPENING OF THE SEVENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ITS ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS AND THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) SYSTEM HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK, JULY 2013
Introduction Let me begin my expressing appreciation for the warm words of welcome extended to me and my delegation this morning. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, with the current global events, all of which demand your attention, it is heartening that our Caribbean Community’s biennial encounter is of sufficient importance to ensure your presence. CARICOM places much importance on these…
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Opening Remarks by H.E. Edwin Carrington Ambassador Extraordinaire, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
On behalf of the Caribbean Community I have the signal honour and distinct pleasure to extend a very warm welcome to the distinguished delegation of Japan, particularly those of you that have travelled all the way from Japan to be with us today for the Sixteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation. May I also extend a warm welcome to my colleagues from the…
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INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES SUPPORT THE MANDATE OF THE CCYD
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Four international agencies have pledged their support in advancing the work of the recently-established CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD). At the meeting of the Commission in Kingston, Jamaica on 6-11 August, 2007, representatives from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)…
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Address by Dr. the Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
Madam Prime Minister, it is a joy to be back in Port of Spain again. We are grateful for the arrangements, and continued hospitality of your government and people. I will also like to thank the Secretary General and his staff at the CARICOM Secretariat for their arrangements for this meeting. I return to this Heads of Government conference after…
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Remarks at the Launching of the Caribbean Public Health Organization Dr. The Rt. Hon Denzil Douglas National Academy of the Performing Arts Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Celebrating a triumph of the spirit of regionalism Today we are gathered in this splendid environment of the National Academy of the Performing Arts in Port of Spain to celebrate an extraordinary achievement, the official launching of the Caribbean Public Health Agency. This is indeed a timely gift to the people of the Caribbean Community which marks its 40th anniversary…
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SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS THE HON. FREUNDEL J. STUART, Q.C., M.P. AT THE COMMEMORATION EVENT AT THE CHAGUARAMAS CONVENTION CENTRE, CHAGUARAMAS 4 JULY 2013
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Honourable Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Fellow Heads of Government, Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen. Today is the 4th day of July, in the year of our Lord 2013. Forty years ago at this place, the Treaty of Chaguaramas was signed. Today, we try to re-enact what happened forty…
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Statement by Ambassador Lorne T. McDonnough Chief Executive Officer Of the CARICOM Development Fund At the SIGNING OF THE COUNTRY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME AGREEMENT between the THE GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA and the CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND HILTON HOTEL, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
HE Donald Ramotar, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,Hon. Ashni Singh-Minister of Finance,Hon Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett–Minister of Foreign Affairs,Hon. Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works,Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press. I am particularly glad Mr President and Minister Singh, that you have been able to find some time during your busy schedule to meet here in Trindad and Tobago…
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Statement by Ambassador Lorne T. McDonnough Chief Executive Officer Of the CARICOM Development Fund At the SIGNING OF THE COUNTRY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME AGREEMENT between the THE GOVERNMENT OF GUYANA and the CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND – HILTON HOTEL, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 6th July, 2013
HE Donald Ramotar, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Hon. Ashni Singh-Minister of Finance, Hon Carolyn Rodrigues-Berkett–Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Robeson Benn, Minister of Public Works, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press. I am particularly glad Mr President and Minister Singh, that you have been able to find some time during your busy schedule to meet here…
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