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Global environment creates opportunity for CARICOM, Africa to achieve common goals – CARICOM SG
The current global environment provides an opportunity for Africa and the Caribbean to build on shared values and interests, and forge a path towards collective action, Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General said Friday. Secretary-General Barnett was at the time addressing the 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meeting being held in Abuja, Nigeria, 25-28 June. The theme of the meeting is ‘Progressive Unity in a…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr Carla Barnett | One People, One Destiny – Uniting and Reimagining our Future | Groundbreaking Ceremony – The Barbados Afreximbank African Trade Centre (AATC) | Barbados | 24 March 2025
Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Chair, Conference of Heads of Government, Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Honourable Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada; His Excellency Professor Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Afreximbank; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. Today’s Groundbreaking Ceremony marks the establishment of a tangible expression of the new chapter…
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A prime example of cooperation in action’ – CARICOM SG hails Afreximbank groundbreaking ceremony in Barbados
Afreximbank on Monday broke ground to construct a USD180 M African Trade Centre (ATC) in Bridgetown, Barbados, a development that Dr. Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General, characterised as “a prime example of cooperation in action.” The ATC in Barbados will be the first of its kind outside Africa and will sit on more than two hectares of land made available by…
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Remarks by the Outgoing Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Jamaica, at the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of COFCOR, 23 May 2024, Roseau, Dominica
Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); Honourable Dr. Vince Henderson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy of the Commonwealth of Dominica and Incoming Chair of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR); Colleague Foreign Ministers; Your Excellency Mr. Soltan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Qatar; Ms. Elizabeth Solomon,…
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Remarks – Dr Carla N Barnett, Secretary-General, at the Opening Ceremony, AFRICARIBBEAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT FORUM 2023, Monday 30 October, “Creating a Shared Prosperous Future”
Your Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Hon. Philip J. Pierre, Prime Minister, Saint Lucia His Excellency Professor Benedict Oramah, President and Board Chairman, Afreximbank Other distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen It is a distinct pleasure for me to say a few words at the opening of this second Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum, taking…
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