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CARICOM AND FRENCH OVERSEAS DEPARTMENTS TO DISCUSS COOPERATION

  (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Representatives of the Regional Councils of the French Overseas Departments in the Americas (DFA’s), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Forum of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM) are meeting in Georgetown, Guyana, on Friday 17 February to discuss a framework for operational and functional cooperation.

The meeting comes as a follow-up to exchanges between the DFA’s and the CARIFORUM States last November in Martinique.

SOUTH AFRICAN DELEGATION TALKS CRICKET WITH CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Her Excellency Faith Doreen Radebe, the High Commissioner of South Africa to Jamaica will pay a courtesy call on His Excellency Edwin Carrington Secretary General of the Caribbean Community on Thursday 16 February at his office at CARICOM Headquarters, Georgetown, Guyana.

The High Commissioner is visiting the Secretariat with a delegation from South Africa to discuss issues related to the staging of the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup 2007 which is being held in the West Indies.

Uk, Italy, EU Congratulate Caricom On Single Market Launch

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Governments of the United Kingdom (UK) and Italy along with the European Union (EU) have sent congratulatory messages to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the occasion of the recent launch of the CARICOM Single Market.

STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR DR. HELMUT OHLRAUN OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS TO H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AS PLENIPOTENTIARY REPRESENTATIVE TO CARICOM,  16 JANUARY 2006, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

 Your Excellency Mr. Secretary-General Madam Deputy Secretary- General Members of CARICOM staff Representatives of the Media Ladies and Gentlemen,

With my accreditation as Plenipotentiary Representative, the Caribbean Community and Germany establish formal relations.

CONTINUED BENEFIT FOR CARICOM FROM RELATIONSHIP WITH GERMANY

(CARICOM Secretariat, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The experience of Germany as a founding Member of one of the world’s most advanced regional integration arrangements, the European Union (EU), is an experience to which the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) can look for support. This message came today from CARICOM Secretary-General H.E Edwin Carrington, on the occasion of the presentation of credentials by H. E Dr Helmut Ohlraun, Germany’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community.

SECOND CARICOM/CUBA SUMMIT IN BARBADOS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Cuba meet in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 8 December for their second Summit meeting in three years.

This meeting is in consonance with the Havana Declaration which was signed at the first Summit in Havana in 2002, on the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the four CARICOM countries which were independent at that time - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - and Cuba.