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OPENING REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY- GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARICOM SECRETARIAT, AT THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 8 OCTOBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It is my pleasure to welcome you all on behalf of the Directorate of Human and Social Development. Our Directorate has worked assiduously over the past year to support the flagship activity of the Community, which is the accelerated implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. Many of the activities in which we have been engaged are being discussed…
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OPENING REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE EIGHTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 24 APRIL 2003, PARAMARIBO, SURINAME
It is indeed my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat and indeed the CARICOM Family. It is moreso our pleasure to be here in Suriname for this Eight meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development which focuses on Human and social issues with special reference to Culture Youth and Sport. We first of…
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CARICOM COUNCIL TO FOCUS ON CULTURE, YOUTH AND SPORT
Issues pertaining to culture, youth and sport will be the focus of deliberations of the Eighth Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD), from 24-26 April 2003, at the Torarica Hotel in Paramaribo, Suriname. The Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA) is expected to be a key agenda item as it will be staged in…
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WELCOME BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE MRS. HAZEL MANNING, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE SIXTH SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD), 31 MARCH 2003, PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
I am delighted to welcome all of you who have honoured the invitation to this 6th Special Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development. Your presence here, is fitting testimony to your commitment to the urgent need for us to work harmoniously together in facing the challenges of Human and Social Development, as they relate to education at…
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EDUCATION FOCUS AT COHSOD MEETING
The Sixth Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, starting at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, 31 March with a focus on Education. The two-day meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre to be presided over by the Hon. Walter Sandriman, Suriname’s Minister of Education and…
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. EDWARD GREEN, ASST. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARICOM, AT SPECIAL COSHOD SESSION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN THE CARIBBEAN, 22 OCTOBER 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this important meeting which is essentially a follow up to the UN General Assembly Special Session on the Rights of the Child held in New York in May this year. It also provides an opportunity for the Caribbean to continue the process of building on the previous proposals for a Regional Framework…
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SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. EDWARD GREEN, ASST. SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT SPECIAL COSHOD SESSION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN THE CARIBBEAN, 22 OCTOBER 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It is my pleasure to welcome you to this important meeting which is essentially a follow up to the UN General Assembly Special Session on the Rights of the Child held in New York in May this year. It also provides an opportunity for the Caribbean to continue the process of building on the previous proposals for a Regional Framework…
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STATEMENT DELIVERED BY MR. ALFREDO R. MISSAIR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, UNICEF, AT SPECIAL COHSOD SESSION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD IN THE CARIBBEAN, 22 OCTOBER 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
ASG, Dr. Edward Greene Minister Shaddik Director, Jacqulyn Joseph Excellencies and Distinguished Participants As organizers of the V Ministerial Meeting held in Jamaica in the year 2000, the Caribbean countries lead the process that concluded the decade of the World Summit for Children and paved the way, with the Kingston Consensus, to the 2002 United Nations General Assembly first Special…
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THIRD MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OPENS IN GEORGETOWN
The Third Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development takes place in Georgetown, Guyana on 13 and 14 January 2000. The Opening Session will begin at 09:30hrs, in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel. CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin W. Carrington will deliver the Opening Remarks. Other remarks will be made by Hon. Henry Jeffrey, Minister of…
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Caribbean Charter On Health and Ageing to be launched at COHSOD Opening
A range of social issues influencing life in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be addressed when CARICOM Ministers on the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meet in Guyana on the 20th and 21st October, 1999. The Third Meeting of The Council will address matters relating to the Free Movement of Skills and People in the Region, and Sport…
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