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CARICOM Secretary-General Congratulates Trinidad and Tobago’s National Football Team

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington today joined the rest of the Caribbean Community in extending warm congratulations to the Captain and players of the Trinidad and Tobago National Football team on the occasion of their success in qualifying for the World Cup Finals to be held in Germany next summer.

REMARKS BY H.E. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY H.E. M. PATRICK BOURSIN, AMBASSADOR DESIGNATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TO CARICOM, 14 NOVEMBER 2005, AT THE CARICOM Secretariat, TurkeyEN, Guyana

Your Excellency Ambassador Patrick Boursin
Assistant Secretaries-General and other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media

Enfin nous y sommes! - Finally we are here! It is truly my pleasure and honour to do what history and geography, culture and anthropology have long deemed natural and inevitable. It is my pleasure to formally affirm the ties that bind the Caribbean Community and the French Departments in the Americas and Metropolitan France.

STATEMENT OF CONGRATULATIONS BY H. E. EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM TO THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN MEDIA WORKERS ON THE OCCASION OF THE INSTALLATION OF THEIR NEW EXECUTIVE

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)The CARICOM Secretariat extends to the Association of Caribbean Media Workers heartiest congratulations on the election and installation of a new executive. Your organisation, representing as it does, media professionals from across the Caribbean region, is well placed to play a critical informational and educational role, as we take yet another important step to deepen the regional integration movement, with the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market in January 2006.

STATEMENT BY CARICOM SECRETARY–GENERAL HIS EXCELLENCY EDWIN CARRINGTON ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS BY HIS EXCELLENCY CHARLES MAYNARD, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) 13 OCTOBER 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Press release 172/2005
(13 October 2005 )

Deputy Secretary General
Members of the CARICOM Staff
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

Today I am extremely honoured to welcome His Excellency Charles Maynard, and to receive his Credentials accrediting him as Dominica’s Plenipotentiary Representative to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Your Excellency, I welcome you on this occasion to the new Headquarters of the Caribbean Community.

Statement By H. E. Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM), On The Second Phase Of The World Summit On The Information Society (WSIS) In Tunis, 16-18 November 2005, Tunisia

The Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) gets under way this week in Tunisia with a promise of bridging the digital divide between the more developed and developing countries and hastening the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the help of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).

CARICOM Promotes Healthy Lifestyles Via Sports

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Sports Development Programme of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is spear-heading plans for the staging of a Day of Sports and Cultureat Guyana’s National Park on Saturday 19 November as a means of increasing awareness of the value of sports to the health and prosperity of a nation.

ICT for Development Key Issue for CARICOM At World Summit

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana)Three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States have confirmed their participation in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Phase Two which takes place in Tunis, Tunisia from 16-18 November.