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Remarks by SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion Of the PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY His EXCELLENCY DR. BOZO CERAR Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) Of THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY
Ambassador, it is my honour to accept your Credentials accrediting you as Slovenia’s Plenipotentiary Representative to CARICOM and to extend to you my hand and that of the Caribbean Community in friendship. The Caribbean Community welcomes the interest in deepening ties that your country has shown in appointing you as its second Ambassador to our Community. CARICOM’s expectations that relations…
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CARICOM Secretary General to host social media interaction with youth on Tuesday
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque will host a social media interaction with youth across CARICOM on Tuesday between 6:00 and 8:00pm. The main topic for discussion will be the CARICOM Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) which was developed to guide national policy, integrated planning and action regarding youth. The Action…
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C@ribNET – a step in the right direction for CARICOM says Secretary General LaRocque
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has stated that C@ribNET was a step in the right direction for CARICOM. He was speaking to Ministers and delegates at the opening ceremony for the forty-eighth (48th) Special Meeting of the Council on Trade and Economic Integration (COTED) on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)…
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CARICOM Secretary General reiterates call on Dominican Republic to “right terrible wrong”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has reiterated the Community’s call on the Dominican Republic to take steps to “right the wrong” resulting from a ruling on nationality made by the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic. The ruling retroactively stripped tens of thousands of nationals from the Dominican Republic, mostly…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion of the Presentation of Credentials by His Excellency Peterson Benjamin Noel Plenipotentiary Representative (DESIGNATE) of the Republic of Haiti To The Caribbean Community Georgetown, GUYANA 10 January 2014
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you, Ambassador Noel, as Haiti’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. Ambassador, you, however, are far from being a newcomer to our Community and this institution in particular. You were a pioneer in the Secretariat’s programme for attaching Haitian professionals to the organisation back in 2008, being the first Haitian government official…
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General Of the Caribbean Community On the Occasion Of the Presentation of Credentials By H.E. Patrick Antoine Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate ) Of Grenada To The Caribbean Community Georgetown, Guyana
Excellency, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat for the presentation of your credentials as the Plenipotentiary Representative of Grenada to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Your appointment is an indication of your country’s continuing strong commitment to regional integration. This is evident in the ‘hands on’ approach that the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Rt…
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GREETINGS FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE ON THE OCCASION OF THE Joint Meeting of THE 27TH Executive Council, 16TH General Conference of Ministers, And THE 12TH Caribbean Ministerial Strategic ICT Seminar OF THE CARIBBEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION JAMAICA 3 December 2013
I would like to begin by thanking the CTU – under the leadership of Secretary-General Bernadette Lewis – for the invitation to bring greetings to this Opening Ceremony of the 12th Caribbean Ministerial Strategic ICT Seminar, as part of the CTU “ICT Week”. I would have been pleased to be here in person with you, but this week I am…
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Remarks by Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On The Occasion Of The Signing Of The Revised UNESCO-CARICOM Memorandum of Understanding and Meeting of the Director-General, UNESCO Her Excellency Irina Bokova and CARICOM Delegations to the Thirty-Seventh UNESCO General Conference PARIS, FRANCE
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to join you at this session between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and UNESCO taking place at its Thirty-Seventh General Conference. I wish to express our appreciation to you, Director General, for affording the CARICOM delegations this opportunity to meet with you to discuss issues of specific importance to our Region. I also…
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Remarks by Secretary-General Of The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On The Occasion Of The Presentation of Credentials by HIS EXCELLENCY FELIX GREGOIRE Plenipotentiary Representative Of The Commonwealth of Dominica To The Caribbean Community 7 October 2013
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the CARICOM Secretariat for the presentation of your credentials as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Commonwealth of Dominica to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). In your new post, you are replacing a much loved and respected figure in the Community, the late Charles Maynard, whose contribution to the integration movement is…
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Remarks by the Secretary-General CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque On the Occasion of the Presentation of Credentials by Her Excellency GODELIEVE VAN DEN BERGH, Plenipotentiary representative (DESIGNATE) of BELGIUM TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY GEORGETOWN, GUYANA 6 NOVEMBER 2013
Excellency, it is my pleasure to receive today your letter accrediting you as Belgium’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community. It marks an important step forward in relations between CARICOM and Belgium. It is, I believe, symbolically important and certainly fitting that Belgium should take this significant step in formalizing bilateral relations with the Caribbean Community given the long…
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