Delegates to the Eighth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) have begun deliberating a number of key "bread and butter" issues pertinent to the well-being of the people of the Region. They will map definitive action in response to a number of challenges facing it, at a t...

A range of matters aimed at quickening the pace of, and strengthening the regional integration process in facing-up to the challenges in the new Century will be covered by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) officials when they meet in Georgetown on the 4-5 February, 2000 to prepare for the Eighth Ministe...

The Seventh Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) was held at the Headquarters of the Community on 8 October 1999. The Meeting was very positive and reached a number of important conclusions. Held under the Chairmanship of Antigua and Barbuda, the COTED took the ...

ADDRESS BY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, EDWIN W. CARRINGTON Mr. Chairman Other Distinguished Ministers Other Distinguished Delegates Secretariat Staff Members of the Media Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Counc...

The Seventh Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development, gets underway tomorrow, 8th October, 1999 at the Secretariat's Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana. Ministers and officials will deliberate on several issues of importance to the Region, foremost among them being the s...

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Mr.Edwin Carrington has implored Member States to redouble efforts for the timely completion of the key elements of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSM&E). Mr .Carrington was speaking at the opening of the one-day 7th Ministerial Meet...

Agriculture and related issues of trade, standards, and external economic relations were the highlight of the just concluded Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) at the Caribbean Community CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana, on 4-5 June 1999. Am...

A range of matters including progress towards the implementation of a CARICOM Single Market and Economy, and the Regional Transformation Programme for agriculture are among items on the agenda of the Sixth Meeting of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COT...

The Fifth Meeting of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED) begins in Georgetown, Guyana on Thursday. Ministers, mainly those with responsibility for Trade, will discuss an agenda dominated by matters related to the establishment of the CARICOM Single ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), will convene its next meeting 5-7 February, 1998 in Jamaica. The new Ministerial body which replaces the longstanding Common Market Council, will address matters relating to the revision of the Treaty of Chaguarama...