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Thank you for keeping dream alive’ – President Martelly, Chair of Conference tells CARICOM staffers

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “You are the Community; you are CARICOM. I believe that things will change because we want to change them. I want to congratulate you as you have decided to give your time to better this world.”

This was the message His Excellency Michel Martelly, Chair of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and President of Haiti brought to staff members of the CARICOM Secretariat whom he addressed briefly on Thursday afternoon during his whirlwind official visit to the Secretariat.

EPA—regional export strategy nexus highlighted

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Honourable Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce of Jamaica, has underscored that “the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM)-European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) must form an integral part of the regional export strategy.”

Securing export markets through traceability systems for agricultural products

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the Regional agriculture sector are to hold further discussions shortly to flesh out the development and application of a system to monitor and trace agricultural products at every step from field through harvest, storage, ports and supermarkets.

EPA in spotlight at Caribbean Exporters’ Colloquium

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Director-General of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) Directorate in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Mr Ivan Ogando Lora, has described the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as “one of the most ambitious contemporary attempts at promoting regional integration processes.”

EPA implementation gets a boost

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) St Vincent and the Grenadines is poised to make greater strides in the implementation of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM)-European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), building on progress made to date.

President Martelly to visit CARICOM Secretariat

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) His Excellency Michel Joseph Martelly, the President of Haiti will pay an official visit to the CARICOM Secretariat from 20-22 March 2013.

President Martelly will hold discussions with CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and his Executive Management team on Thursday 21 March at the Secretariat’s Turkeyen, Guyana headquarters. On that day he will also meet with the staff of the Secretariat.

CARICOM EAGER TO COMPLETE ROBUST ARMS TRADE TREATY

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Member States will be pressing for a successful conclusion to the final Negotiation Session of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on an Arms Trade Treaty which began at UN Headquarters, New York, USA on Monday.

CARIFORUM agriculture gets 8.6 million Euro boost

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has welcomed an €8.6 million euro programme to boost the Region’s agriculture sector.

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