Statements and Declarations
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett at the Opening of the 25th Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), 18 May 2022
Honourable E.P. Chet Greene, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Trade of Antigua and Barbuda, and Chairman of the COFCOR; Senator the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize and Outgoing Chair of the COFCOR; Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community and other Heads of Delegations; Ambassador Donna Forde, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community…
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Opening Statement by Chairman of COFCOR Hon E.P. Chet Greene at 25th Meeting of COFCOR, 18th – 19th MAY, 2022 Georgetown, Guyana
Fellow Colleague Ministers of the Caribbean Community Secretary General Assistant Secretary General CARICOM Ambassadors Senior Officials of CARICOM Member states Officers of the CARICOM Secretariat I am honoured to assume the Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations. On our collective behalf, I thank the out-going Chair, the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, for his excellent leadership during his tenure,…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett on the occasion of the accreditation of Her Excellency Jennifer Marchand as Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM
Your Excellency Jennifer Marchand, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM; Your Excellency Candice N. Shade, Acting High Commissioner of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana; Ambassador Donna Forde, Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations, and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. Ambassador, it gives me great pleasure to accept…
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STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) HON JOHN BRICEÑO, PRIME MINISTER OF BELIZE ON CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY’S CANDIDATES FOR COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY-GENERAL
An election for the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth will take place during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which takes place 20-25 June 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda. The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community maintains that it is still the turn of the Caribbean to provide a candidate for the position. In that regard, two…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett on the occasion of the presentation of Credentials by H.E. Leslia Miller-Brice as Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community, 16 May 2022
Your Excellency Leslia Miller-Brice, Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community; Ambassador Donna Forde, Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations, and other Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat. It is with great pleasure that I accept your Letter of Credence as the Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Ambassador, I am always grateful for an opportunity…
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Remarks by HE Leslia Miller-Brice on the occasion of the presentation of her Letters of Accreditation as Ambassador of The Bahamas to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), 16 May 2022
Dr Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, Executive Management of the CARICOM Secretariat, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Other Distinguished Guests and Officials, Brothers and Sisters of the Caribbean Community, Good afternoon. It is a pleasure to stand before you as the newly-appointed Bahamas Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. I am honoured to have been asked by the…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett to the Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CARICOM with the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Vice President of the European Union, Panama, 3 May 2022
His Excellency Joseph Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission; Senator the Honourable Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize and Chair of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations; Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Heads of Delegations of the Caribbean…
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Sir William Arthur Lewis (Virtual) Distinguished Lecture: Sustained Economic Recovery Post-Pandemic – The Lewis Model, presented by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett
Salutations I am deeply honoured to present the Sir W. Arthur Lewis Distinguished lecture this year under the theme “Sustained Economic Recovery Post-Pandemic: The Lewis Model”. In our region and across the world, we are preoccupied with building a post-pandemic economic recovery notwithstanding the persistence of the COVID-19 Pandemic. I recall the great pride I felt as an undergraduate in…
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Remarks by Ambassador Wayne McCook, Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM Single Market and Trade (CSMT) – Sensitisation of CARICOM Media Workers, 26 April 2022
Ms. Sonia Gill, Secretary-General, Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Ms. Nazima Raghubir, President, Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) Mr. Titus Preville, Programme Manager CARICOM Single Market and Mr. Salas Hamilton our CSME Communications Lead, and colleagues from the CARICOM Secretariat. Participants of today’s session Ambassador Wayne McCook Good morning to you all and welcome to this very important activity which…
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Keynote Address by CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Dr Armstrong Alexis at the Launch of the Creative Caribbean project, 21 April 2022
❖ Honourable Ministers with responsibility for Culture ❖ Dr. Norbert Richard Ibrahim, Assistant Secretary-General, Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States ❖ Mr. Frderik Ekfeldt, Deputy Head of Mission, Delegation of the European Union to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Cayman Islands ❖ Dr. Saadia Sanchez-Vegas, Director and Representative, UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean; ❖ Ms.…
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