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CARICOM LEADERS TACKLE GLOBAL CRISIS

At least eleven Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are expected in Belize City, Belize, for the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on 12-13 March 2009.

CURRENT GLOBAL CRISIS DEMANDS DEEPENING OF REGIONAL COLLABORATION - PM THOMPSON

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The current global scenario was a major test of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the Region needed to deepen its collaboration and rely on regional commitments and partnerships, the Hon David Thompson, Prime Minister of Barbados said Wednesday.

REMARKS BY THE HON. DEAN BARROW, PRIME MINISTER OF BELIZE AND CURRENT CHAIR OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTIETH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 11-13 MARCH 2009, BELIZE CITY, BELIZE

Heads of State and Government of CARICOM
Secretary General of CARICOM, Dr. Edwin Carrington
My Lord, Chief Justice of Belize
Ministers of Government and Members of the National Assembly of Belize
Heads of International and Regional Organizations
Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps
Other Specially invited guests
Delegates
Ladies and Gentlemen

CONSOLIDATE GAINS OF CARICOM SINGLE MARKET - PM BARROW URGES COMMUNITY

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize Prime Minster and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) the Hon. Dean Barrow has dismissed as “an exaggeration” the “regional chatter” predicting the demise of the integration movement, and called on delegates to the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of Heads of Government of CARICOM to consolidate the gains of the CARICOM Single Market and move forward with the establishment of the Single Economy.

CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT ON CCJ TO BE PROPOSED SHORTLY - PRIME MINISTER BARROW

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Hon Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, will shortly propose to his Parliament constitutional amendments towards the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the final appellate court of that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member State.

The Prime Minister’s announcement Thursday morning at the opening of the Twentieth Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government drew sustained applause from the delegates at the Radisson Fort George Hotel in Belize City, Belize.