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OPENING REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE DAVID THOMPSON, PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIFTH MEETING OF THE PRIME MINISTERIAL SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE CARICOM SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY (CSME), 11 MARCH 2009, BELIZE CITY, BELIZE
Colleague Prime Ministers of the Subcommittee on the CSME Honourable Prime Ministers of the Community Ministers of Government Secretary-General Ladies and gentlemen I am indeed pleased to welcome you to this the Fifth Meeting of the subcommittee on the CSME. I wish to thank our Chairman and the host, the Honourable Dean Barrow, for accommodating the postponement and subsequent rescheduling…
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CSME THE WAY TO COMBAT THE GLOBAL CRISIS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All speakers at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) identified the greater convergence of Caribbean Community economies as a means of combating global financial and economic crises. Speaking at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, formerly the Sherbourne Centre, in Bridgetown, Barbados on Thursday 29 January, COFAP…
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HAITI GETTING READY FOR CSME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown Guyana) Haiti is expected to participate in at least one component of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy, (CSME) by the first quarter of 2009. The fundamental components of the CSME are free movement of goods and services, free movement of people and skills, and the right of establishment of business entities within the Community.…
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COTED ACKNOWLEDGES CSME CRITICAL TO CONFRONTING GLOBAL CHALLENGES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The need for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to forge ahead with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in order to adequately and collectively respond to the current global financial and economic crisis was underscored yesterday at the official opening of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Monday,…
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STUDENTS TO GET HANDS ON CSME EXPERIENCE
His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), officially launched a project entitled 'Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotions' during a press conference in Barbados on Thursday 11 September 2008. Sixty young people selected from colleges and universities in three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be the initial beneficiaries of the project and will be travelling…
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STUDENTS TO EXPLORE CSME OPPORTUNITIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) SIXTY college and university students from three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be the initial beneficiaries of a project facilitated by the CARICOM Secretariat with the assistance of the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP). The project entitled ‘Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotions’ will see the students…
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CARICOM YOUTH AMBASSADORS TO TOUT BENEFITS OF CSME
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Fourteen CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) returned to their respective territories on Tuesday, armed with the skills and information to better promote the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) to their peers and to encourage active participation. On Monday, the youth advocates representing 13 countries, participated in a Workshop organized in collaboration with the CSME…
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HARASSMENT A THREAT TO CSME, SAYS GUYANA PRESIDENT
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana President, His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo said the treatment meted out to some Caribbean nationals by immigration officers at some Caribbean ports of entry was posing a direct threat to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Addressing the Opening Ceremony of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of CARICOM Heads of Government…
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CARICOM DETERMINED TO GET THE MOST FROM AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Regional Agriculture Investment Forum will provide a platform for Caribbean and international parties with an interest in investing in the agriculture sector to seek business alliances with existing and potential agriculture entrepreneurs. This was emphasised today by H. E Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana and Lead CARICOM Head of Government on agriculture at…
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