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DSG Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan Demits Office
CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan demitted office on August 31 after seven years of service. Among her achievements during her tenure, the Surinamese diplomat championed the greening of the Secretariat’s Headquarters building highlighted by the on-going installation of solar power and oversaw the introduction of the CARICOM Results Based Management System which is now employed across the Community for…
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CARICOM and Georgia look to strengthen ties – new Georgian Ambassador accredited
The Republic of Georgia’s new Ambassador to CARICOM HE David Solomonia on Wednesday presented his credentials to CARICOM’s Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan at the Secretariat’s Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana. The Deputy Secretary-General noted that CARICOM is in the process of finalising a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation with Georgia, the purpose of which is to strengthen political, commercial, economic,…
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Machine readable CARICOM Laissez Passer for CARICOM staff
Last November, a specimen of the new machine readable CARICOM Laissez Passer was introduced to representatives attending the Special Meeting of Chiefs of Immigration and Comptrollers of Customs (CICC), in Trinidad and Tobago. Heads of Immigration within the Caribbean Community received the specimen and a formal folder explaining the features and other technical aspects. According to Deputy Secretary-General of the…
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PANCAP HOSTS HIV EDUTAINMENT EVENT Over 50 children of employees will participate in interactive HIV awareness activities
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach to the Caribbean’s response to the HIV epidemic, upon the initiative and request from the Office of the Deputy Secretary-General will facilitate an awareness activity on HIV and AIDS titled ‘HIV Edutainment Hangout’. The special initiative…
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Remarks by the Deputy Secretary-General on the occasion of the Results Based Mangement Training for the CARICOM Results-based Management Leadership Group CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana, 6-8 March 2017
Ambassadors to CARICOM, representatives of Member States, representatives of Regional Institutions, experts from Baastel, representatives from Directorates of the Secretariat, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I have the distinct honour and pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat, to Guyana and especially to this workshop. I also thank you for your presence here over the next three days, as I know…
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CARICOM-Republic of Korea commit to areas for closer cooperation
CARICOM and the Republic of Korea held their first high-level meeting in Jamaica on Monday with agreement on a number of areas for closer cooperation. In a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting the two sides committed to further strengthen their ties of friendship and spirit of cooperation. They also agreed to reinvigorate a Consultation and Cooperation…
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Joint Statement of the Inaugural High-Level Meeting between the Republic of Korea and the Caribbean Community(CARICOM)
The Inaugural High-Level Meeting between the Republic of Korea (Korea) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 27 February 2017. The Republic of Korea was represented by His Excellency Mr. Lim Sung-nam, First Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Korea, the CARICOM Secretariat by Ambassador Manorma Soeknandan, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General, and CARICOM Member States by Ambassadors,…
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CARICOM Deputy Secretary General optimistic about fight against HIV/AIDS virus
By Mark Murray Today, Guyana joined other countries in observing World AIDS Days with the message of prevention being echoed as CARICOM’s Deputy Secretary-General remains optimistic about the future effect the virus has on the world’s population. The world has made huge progress in the fight against AIDS, according to the United Nations. But for some experts that fight to…
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CARICOM Secretariat to host the Inaugural Meeting of the Results-based Management (RBM) Leadership Group
The inaugural meeting of the CARICOM RBM Leadership Group will be held on Friday 29 July 2016 under the chairmanship of the CARICOM Secretariat’s Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Dr Manorma Soeknandan. The Leadership Group which was established in June 2016 is comprised of senior representatives of the fifteen (15) Member States, twenty-four (24) Regional Institutions and staff of the CARICOM Secretariat.…
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CARICOM should have all Members States on board – DSG.
CARICOM Deputy Secretary General Dr. Manorma Soeknandan says that CARICOM should not go through the recent EU experience whereby the United Kingdom decided to leave that grouping. She was speaking at the opening ceremony of a Regional Technical Meeting on the implementation of 10th European Development Fund (EDF) CSME and Economic Integration Programme on Friday 24 June. Dr. Soeknandan said…
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