treaty of chaguaramas
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Mottley: Time to act is now
The region’s young people will not wait another ten years nor will they forgive present leaders for procrastination or lack of courage. And Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told her colleagues if they were serious about making the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) work, it was time to move past the talk. Mottley was making her maiden address…
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CSME the best response to changes in Europe – Outgoing Chair
CSME the best response to changes in Europe – Outgoing Chair (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CSME is the Community's best response to the inevitable changes in its traditional markets in Europe, the prevalence of economic liberalization and the emergence of economic blocs, Outgoing Chairman of the Caribbean Community said Tuesday evening. Speaking to the opening of the…
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Now in French: The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
First it was in only English. There Dutch. Now thanks to the Caribbean Regional Information and Translation Institute (CRITI) there is also a French version of The Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including the CSME. On Monday evening, Chair of the Advisory Committee, CRITI, Ms. Annette Tjon Sie Fat and Executive Director Mr. Hendrik Alimahomed made a…
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A Fair Climate Treaty or None at All, Jamaica Warns
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov 10 2014 (IPS) – As the clock counts down to the last major climate change meeting of the year, before countries must agree on a definitive new treaty in 2015, a senior United Nations official says members of the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) “need to be innovative and think outside the box” if they…
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REMARKS BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, THE HONOURABLE KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR, SC AT THE RE-ENACTMENT OF THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY OF CHAGUARAMAS THURSDAY 4TH JULY 2013 CHAGUARAMAS
It is with immense pleasure and a deep sense of Caribbean patriotism that I welcome my sisters and brothers of the region to this most historic occasion. Forty (40) years ago on this day, the founding fathers of the region executed what is perhaps, the most significant accord that would govern the relationship of the nation-states which comprise the Caribbean…
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MESSAGE FROM THE CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, 8 MARCH 1998
March 8, 1998 marks the eighty-fourth year that the world will be commemorating International Women's Day. As we, in the Caribbean, take pride in the progress we have made in furthering the objective of regional integration and prepare to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas this July, we must also take stock of progress…
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