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CARICOM TRADE MINISTERS AND WTO HEAD TO MEET IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Caribbean Trade Ministers will meet with the Mexican Foreign Minister and the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi in Georgetown, Guyana on Friday 28 November, 2003. H.E Ernesto Derbez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico was the Chairman of the Fifth Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference, which was held in Cancun in early September.

The meeting is scheduled to take place from 3.00 p.m. at the Conference Room of the headquarters of the CARICOM Secretariat, Bank of Guyana Building.

CARICOM MISSION STRENGTHENS CARICOM-INDIA RELATIONS

The CARICOM Mission to India, led by the Chairman of the Community Council of Ministers Hon. K.D. Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica and including the CARICOM Secretary General His Excellency Edwin Carrington and his Special Assistant, Ms. Glenda Itiaba, got underway on Tuesday, 25 November with discussions in Delhi, with the Hon. Yashwant Sinha, Minister of External Affairs of India and other representatives of the Indian Government.

REMARKS BY HON. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, AT THE EIGHTH ANNUAL CARIBBEAN MULTI-NATIONAL BUSINESS CONFERENCE ON “GLOBALISATION TO SERVE THE INTEREST OF THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD,” 9 NOVEMBER 2003, NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS

“Robin Hood used to rob from the rich to give to the poor.

    The global market economy is causing the exact reverse”

    [Address by The Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica

    “CARICOM Beyond Thirty: Connecting with the Diaspora”.

    at CARICOM 30th Anniversary Lecture, New York, 2 October 2003]

RNM Chief: FTAA Talks ‘Amicable’

MIAMI, UNITED STATES – “Deliberations, thus far, have been amicable and

constructive”. Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Director-General,

Ambassador Richard Bernal, made these remarks, November 17, two days into the

Sixteenth meeting of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Trade Negotiations

Committee (TNC), convened in Miami, United States.

The four-day TNC, that got underway November 15, is striving to broker ‘balance’ to

respond to the sensitivities of the negotiating countries concerned.

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