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Remarks by H. E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on the Occasion of the Twelfth Meeting of the Council For Finance And Planning (COFAP),  6 March 2008, Nassau The Bahamas

Honourable Michael Brown, Minister of National Mobilisation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning;

Honourable Roosevelt Skerritt, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Dominica;

Other Distinguished Ministers of Finance;

Other Distinguished Ministers;

Central Bank Governors and Deputy Governors;

Representatives of Regional and International Organisations;

Distinguished Delegates and Officials;

Representatives of the Media;

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Poverty, Rising Cost of Living high on agenda of Special COTED

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) In its quest to stem the rising cost of living in the Region, the Twenty-Fourth Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) is expected to make a determination regarding the removal or reduction of the Common External Tariff (CET) on certain commodities. The COTED Meeting will be held in Nassau, The Bahamas on 5 March 2008.

COFAP To Consider CARICOM Single Economy Preparations

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)Preparations for the CARICOM Single Economy (CSE), the framework of which is to be in place this year, the status of the proposed Regional Development Agency (RDA) and of the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF), will be examined at the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) which convenes in The Bahamas on 6 March 2008.

ADDRESS BY HER EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE MINISTERIAL STRATEGIC BRIEFING SEMINAR OF THE CARIBBEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (CTU), 28 FEBRUARY 2008, HAMILTON, BERMUDA

Thank you, Mr. Chairman

Hon. Clive Mullings, President of CTU and Minister of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications of Jamaica
Hon. Terry Lister, Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce of Bermuda
Other Ministers of Government
Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of the ITU
Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary-General of CTU
Delegates, Representatives of Member States and the Private Sector
Representatives of the Media

ADDRESS BY HER EXCELLENCY AMBASSADOR LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON THE OCCASION OF THE MINISTERIAL STRATEGIC BRIEFING SEMINAR OF THE CARIBBEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (CTU), 28 FEBRUARY 2008, HAMILTON, BERMUDA

Hon. Clive Mullings, President of CTU and Minister of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications of Jamaica
Hon. Terry Lister, Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce of Bermuda
Other Ministers of Government
Dr. Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of the ITU
Ms. Bernadette Lewis, Secretary-General of CTU
Delegates, Representatives of Member States and the Private Sector
Representatives of the Media

EPA TAKES CENTRE STAGE AT KEY COMMUNITY MEETINGS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A series of key meetings of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), including the Nineteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Heads of Government in Nassau, The Bahamas, will be held within the next ten days.

Among them is the Meeting of the Reflections Group on the CARIFORUM/EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that was initialed last December in Barbados. The Reflections Group will meet in Kingston, Jamaica on 28-29 February 2008.

CARICOM AND GERMANY SIGN EIGHT MILLION EURO AGREEMENT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Federal Republic of Germany signed a Financing Agreement worth eight million euros on Tuesday 26 February 2008.

The grant, disbursed in two tranches the first of five million and the second of three million, is to assist the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean (PANCAP) in its attempts to prevent the spreads of the virus.

CARICOM, CANADA, HAITI MOVE ON CSME PROJECT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The first meeting of a Tripartite Committee established to oversee the implementation of a Haiti CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) Project was held on Tuesday 26 February 2008 at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters, Georgetown, Guyana.

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