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CARICOM has much to celebrate as it marks 40th anniversary – Secretary General – As 34th Heads summit opens in Trinidad
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Guyana Chronicle – THE opening ceremony for the 34th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM was held last evening in Trinidad and Tobago, at the St Ann’s Conference Centre, under the theme, “Celebration and Renewal”. Delivering opening remarks, CARICOM’s Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque called on the leaders of member states to…
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Remarks by The Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque At the Opening of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting Of The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Port -of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
On this night, July 3 1973, 40 years ago, a feeling of expectation and spirit of hope filled the Caribbean air. The Commonwealth Caribbean was poised to make the move from the 1965 free trade area of Dickenson Bay, CARIFTA, to the Community and Common Market of Chaguaramas, CARICOM. The 1973 Georgetown Accord had been transformed into the Treaty of…
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President Ramotar to join CARICOM Heads in confronting travel issues – at 34th Regular meeting in
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – TRANSPORTATION is on the agenda of the Thirty-Fourth Regular Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government in Trinidad and Tobago during the period July 4 to 6, which will be attended by President Donald Ramotar. Cognisant of the challenges intra-regional transportation pose, CARICOM leaders will focus on transportation matters that emanated during…
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LIVE STREAM of the Opening Ceremony of the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
The Live Stream of the Opening Ceremony of the Heads of CARICOM Summit will be available at the following URL’s at 6:00 PM today. · On the homepage of http://www.news.gov.tt · TV4 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourtv4/app_527801540573823 · Office of the Prime Minster’s Website: http://www.opm.gov.tt/happening_now.php?mid=19
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At the Opening Ceremony Of the EIGHTH ILO MEETING OF CARIBBEAN LABOUR MINISTERS
I wish at the very outset to express my sincere appreciation to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for affording me the opportunity to bring these brief remarks to you at the Opening of this 8th Meeting of Caribbean Ministers of Labour. This meeting comes at a time in the development of our Region,…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING OPENS WEDNESDAY
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July. The Meeting, which…
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Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM Transportation – a major area of focus
CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to…
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CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING TO MULL NEW DIRECTION FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM. The meeting begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and…
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THIRTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF CARICOM
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) There is a school of thought that a more positive and apt description of the group of States that form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is one couched in language that infers connectedness rather than divisiveness by the Caribbean Sea. In other words, the characteristic of being connected by the Caribbean Sea lends to inclusiveness,…
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