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Gill: Market Access Simulation Exceeds Expectations

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Senior Director Mr. Henry Gill described a market access negotiating skills workshop that concluded today in Christ Church, Barbados and that brought together trade negotiators from across the Caribbean as “one of the most important preparatory exercises organized to date, as regards the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations or any other theatre of external trade negotiations for that matter.” In closing remarks which assessed the outcomes of the simulation workshop, Mr.

Scaled Back Commission Banana Proposal To Have Crippling Effect On Caribbean

SCALED BACK COMMISSION BANANA PROPOSAL TO HAVE CRIPPLING EFFECT ON CARIBBEAN
CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Caribbean banana exporting countries have expressed deep disappointment at yesterday’s announcement by the European Commission of a revised banana tariff proposal of €187 per tonne on third country or most favored nation (MFN) banana imports under a Tariff Only system, to come into effect as of January 1, 2006.

REGIONAL INTERNET GOVERNANCE TASK FORCE AMONG GEORGETOWN FORUM RECOMMENDATIONS

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) specialists from the Caribbean concluded their recent Internet Governance Forum in Georgetown, Guyana, with a number of recommendations aimed at strengthening the Region’s involvement in the governance and use of the Internet.

High among the recommendations emanating from the Forum is the establishment of a regional Internet Governance Task Force or Secretariat designed to conduct research, formulate policy, and give technical guidance with regard to harmonised regional cyber laws.

REMARKS BY AMB. LOLITA APPLEWHAITE, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FORUM ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE, 5 SEPTEMBER 2005, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

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When the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded in Geneva in December 2003, there were agreements on many important issues, including freedom of expression and enabling environment. There were however two unresolved issues at the summit: one was financing and the other Internet governance, which were left to be debated, analysed and solved by the second phase of WISIS.

CARICOM SECRETARIAT HOSTS CONGRATULATORY RECEPTION FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL CARRINGTON

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Edwin Carrington walked into a surprise reception held in his honour to celebrate his recent achievement of being conferred with Trinidad and Tobago’s highest national honour, the Trinity Cross. The reception, hosted by CARICOM Secretariat staffers in Georgetown on Friday 2 September, featured vocal renditions performed by staff who entertained invitees including members of the Diplomatic Corps, officials of the Guyana Government and other State agencies.

CARICOM SECRETARY-GENERAL RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS TRINITY CROSS

 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Edwin Carrington yesterday became the proud recipient of the highest award of Trinidad and Tobago, the Trinity Cross. The Secretary-General was presented with the award by President of the Republic, His Excellency George Maxwell Richards, during the Independence Day awards ceremony at the President’s residence.

CARICOM INITIATES REGIONAL POSITION ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE

 

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) continues to focus on the full utilisation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the shaping of regional economies, ICT experts in the Region are taking steps to ensure that CARICOM's concerns at advanced at international Internet Governance (IG) fora.

CARIBBEAN RESEARCH CRUCIAL TO TACKLING REGIONAL DRUG ABUSE

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean’s youth and adolescent have been identified as being most vulnerable to the growing problem of substance use and abuse.

Data put forward by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Commission, CICAD, reveal that the average age of “first-use” of drugs is approximately age ten and in many instances as low as age seven.

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