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ACP welcomes new sugar vote in European Parliament

BRUSSELS, CMC – The Chairman of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Sugar Subcommittee, Dr. P.I. Gomes, has welcomed a vote in the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development which supports the extension of the current quota provisions until 30 September 2020. The ACP says the extension of sugar quotas will help to ensure fair, stable and reasonable remunerative EU sugar market prices to ACP and less developed countries (LDC) exporters under the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) and the Everything But Arms Initiative.

CARICOM DEVELOPMENT THEATRE TO TRAIN YOUTHS IN HIV/AIDS FIGHT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community Secretariat is organising a series of youth workshops, using the Visual and Performing Arts as a means of empowering young people in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

The ultimate objective of this series of workshops is to engage and involve youth across the Region in developing a sustainable regional response to HIV and AIDS as well as other social problems related to HIV and AIDS.

ADDRESS BY HON. LAWRENCE ACHONG, MINISTER OF LABOUR AND SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AND INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (COHSOD) AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE NINTH MEETING OF COHSOD,  8 OCTOBER 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Honourable Ministers
Dr. Edward Greene and other members of the CARICOM Secretariat
Ms. Grace Strachan, Director of the ILO, Caribbean Office
Permanent Secretaries
Representatives of Ministers
Representatives of Regional and International Institutions
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen

It is certainly a pleasure for me to be here in Guyana at this very important Meeting. I bring you greetings from the Government and people of Trinidad and Tobago.

CARICOM AND COSTA RICA INITIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

After three rounds of negotiations CARICOM and Costa Rica concluded a Free Trade Agreement which holds the promise of significantly increasing trade between thirteen CARICOM countries and Costa Rica, a market of some 4 million persons. The negotiations were concluded in San José, Costa Rica, on 15 March 2003, with the initialling of the Agreement by the CARICOM negotiating spokesperson, Mr. Byron Blake, Assistant Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Secretariat and Mr. Fernando Ocampo, Director General of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica.

ADDRESS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, AT THE CLOSING SESSION OF COHSOD VII - SPECIAL FOCUS ON PRESENTATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SURINAME NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CARIFESTA VIII, 25 OCTOBER 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

It is my pleasure to be here this afternoon to join you for this closing session of the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development, which is dedicated to the presentation of the CARIFESTA VIII Programme by the Surname National CARIFESTA Commission led by Minister Walter Sandriman. I regret that I could not be with you before but as the Deputy Secretary-General would have pointed out in her remarks at the opening session, my absence was unavoidable.

CARICOM/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

On 1 December 2001 the CARICOM/Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement will enter into force provisionally in the Dominican Republic - a market of some 8 million people - and in all CARICOM States, except Guyana and Suriname. These two States have not yet completed the administrative procedures.

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is not a party to these trade arrangements.

PUERTO RICO SEEKING CLOSER TIES WITH CARICOM

A High level delegation from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the first Oversees Commonwealth Territory of the USA, is due in the country next week to begin negotiating closer relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) by way of establishing new lines of communication with its executive arm, the Secretariat.

CARICOM POSITION ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HAITI - Intervention by Hon. Minister M. Assam of Trinidad and Tobago on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), at the XXXI General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS), 5 June 200, San Jose, Costa Rica

1. The Caribbean Community has been engaged with Haiti for a long time, as that country is part of the Caribbean sub-region. Haiti has also applied for full membership of the Caribbean Community and Common Market.

2. CARICOM Heads of Government have agreed to the establishment of a CARICOM Office in Haiti to support Haiti´s membership of the Community and I am pleased to inform that that staff will leave Georgetown this week-end to commence operations of that office, which will be housed in the Embassy of The Bahamas in Haiti.

Belize and Guatemala have made progress in dealing with the illegal Guatemalan settlements in Belize

Belize and Guatemala have made progress in dealing with the illegal Guatemalan settlements in Belize but the two countries still have a long way to go in resolving their 150-year-old territorial dispute.

"We have made progress in dealing with illegal Guatemalan settlements in Belizean territory, but there are elements in Guatemala that are still talking about the recovery of Belize," said Prime Minister Said Musa.

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