(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington, in his welcome remarks to a distinguished gathering at the Sherbourne Conference Centre in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June, pointed to “early harvest” in the CARICOM Single Economy process.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Patrick Manning, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), sees the CARICOM Single Market as one of the most important milestones in the development of Caribbean regional integration.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The operationalisation of the regional Development Fund will represent an instance of shared sovereignty among CARICOM Governments, and dispel some of the unfounded concerns about the loss of national sovereignty with the deepening of our economic integration process, said CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington .
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt Hon Owen Arthur told a High-Level three day Symposium, on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Barbados on Wednesday 28 June that “we are very near to church, but still far from God. But we must persevere.” Prime Minister Arthur said that “the substantial benefits from economic integration will in fact derive from the construction of a single regional economy.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of Barbados, the Rt. Honourable Owen Arthur speaking today 28 June, to the Symposium, Caribbean Connect, on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Barbados posited that the obligations under the CSME “were not imposed on us by any colonial master nor any supranational extra-regional institution. They were negotiated in good faith and agreed by the respective countries in their capacity as sovereign States.”
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s development will depend largely on the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) institutional support.
This was view of Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerritt, who briefed the media on Monday 26 June at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana during a visit to the Secretariat’s headquarters.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community Governments, the Labour Movement and some three hundred private sector organizations are expected to be represented at Caribbean Connect; a High-Level Symposium on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) 28-30 June 2006 at the Sherbourne Conference Centre, Barbados.
His Excellency Rene Garcia Preval, the President of Haiti, expressed his great delight at his country’s resumption of formal arrangements with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Long distance runners from across the Caribbean region will gather in Basseterre, St. Kitts and Nevis on Sunday 2nd of July for the second annual CARICOM 10K road race which has now become a calendar event for athletes in the Region.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Hon Roosevelt Skerritt has assured that the countries of the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) “are in total support of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).”