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JAPAN FORMALLY HANDS OVER VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT TO CARICOM

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) formally accepted video-conferencing equipment from the Government of Japan today at a ceremony at the headquarters of the Community in Georgetown Guyana. Deputy Secretary-General Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite accepted the equipment on behalf of CARICOM, from Japan’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community, Ambassador Koichiro Seki.

MESSAGE FROM MR. TARO ASO,  MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF JAPAN TO THE TWELFTH JAPAN-CARICOM CONSULTATION, 09 AUGUST 2007, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my great pleasure that the Twelfth Japan-CARICOM Consultation Meeting is convened in the Republic of Guyana, with representatives from CARICOM Member States and Japan.

Since 1993, this forum has been greatly contributing to development of the solid base for friendly ties between Japan and CARICOM Member States as well as for our mutual cooperation in the international arena.　

COMMUNIQUE ISSUED ON THE LAUNCH OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND PANAMA, 8 AUGUST 2007, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)   Ministers of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and of the Republics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama today launched free trade negotiations in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The negotiations which will build on the existing free trade agreement between CARICOM and Costa Rica are intended to result in an agreement that would deepen and strengthen trade and economic relations between the two sub-regions.

CARICOM TABLES RECOMMENDATIONS AT US CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON DEPORTEES

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has recommended to the United States (US) the establishment of procedural guidelines to streamline the deportation process. Those guidelines would take into consideration the interests of the US and the receiving countries.

CAUCUS OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS IN GUATEMALA

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A review of the Agriculture Donor Conference held in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2007, is among the key agenda items the Caucus of CARICOM Ministers of Agriculture will consider in Antigua, Guatemala on 24 July 2007.

According to the provisional agenda of the Meting, the Ministers will review the conference and follow-up action plan and will also consider the CARICOM Agriculture Investment Conference which is to be hosted by Jamaica.

CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEET PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government will meet Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an informal session on 19 July in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Prime Minister Harper, who is on a four-nation tour of Latin America and the Caribbean, will visit Haiti after his stop in Barbados.

CYAs KEY IN FULFILLING YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION’S MANDATE

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) After a four day meeting in Jamaica, CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) are mobilizing to help the recently-established CARICOM Commission on Youth Development (CCYD) execute its mandate to chart a practical agenda for regional youth development.

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