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CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME LAUNCHED IN HAITI

The Caribbean Court of Justice in its continued Public Education Programme, on the 22-23 May, 2003 launched its public education programme in Haiti.

Haiti is the newest Member State embraced as a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The launch and first round of the education programme in Haiti, targeted the Judiciary and Magistracy.

The Haitian Judiciary was given the opportunity to discuss the CCJ in the context of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

ADDRESS BY THE RT. HON. OWEN ARTHUR, PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 2 JULY 2003,MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA

My presence here today as Prime Minister is the consequence of an electoral choice that is without precedent in the post-independence history of my country.

It focuses my mind on the fact that we live in unprecedented times – in a world caught up with difficult and dangerous new tensions, and confronted with blistering and bewildering change that makes it often very difficult for our people to see the future.

STATEMENT BY THE HON. SAM CONDOR, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, AND INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF COTED, 29 MAY 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Chairman and Members of CARICOM, Host Minister Hon. Clement Rohee, outgoing Chair Hon Margaret Dyer-Howe, Colleague Ministers, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Representatives of Member Governments, Representatives of Inter-Hemispheric and Regional Governments, Ambassador Richard Bernal - Director of the Regional Negotiating Machinery, Friends of the Media:

STATEMENT BY THE HON. SAM CONDOR, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, ST. KITTS AND NEVIS, AND INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) AT THE OPENING OF THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 29 MAY 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Chairman and Members of CARICOM,

Host Minister Hon. Clement Rohee,

outgoing Chair Hon Margaret Dyer-Howe,

Colleague Ministers,

Members of the Diplomatic Corps,

Representatives of Member Governments,

Representatives of Inter-Hemispheric and Regional Governments,

Ambassador Richard Bernal - Director of the Regional Negotiating Machinery,

Friends of the Media:

OPENING REMARKS BY MR. BYRON R. BLAKE, ASST. SECRETARY GENERAL, REGIONAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 29 MAY 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA Deputy Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Incoming Chairman of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (CO

Deputy Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Incoming Chairman of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Hon. Sam Condor;
Minister of Agriculture, Housing, Lands and the Environment of Montserrat and Outgoing Chairman of the Coted, Hon. Margaret Dyer-Howe;
Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana and Host Minister, Hon. Clement Rohee;
Deputy Prime Ministers;
Ministers;
Representatives of Member States and Regional Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations of the Public and Private Sector;

OPENING REMARKS BY MR. BYRON R. BLAKE, ASST. SECRETARY GENERAL, REGIONAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FIFTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 29 MAY 2003, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Deputy Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and Incoming Chairman of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Hon. Sam Condor;

Minister of Agriculture, Housing, Lands and the Environment of Montserrat and Outgoing Chairman of the Coted, Hon. Margaret Dyer-Howe;

Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana and Host Minister, Hon. Clement Rohee;

Deputy Prime Ministers;

Ministers;

HAITIAN TRADE OFFICIALS ON CARICOM STUDY TOUR

A team of Haitian Trade officials will begin a two-week study-tour on Monday 2 June 2003, spending the first week in Georgetown, Guyana, at the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). They will spend the second week in Trinidad & Tobago to complete the familiarisation exercise of the CARICOM machinery particularly as it relates to trade.

CARICOM TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR COTED DELIBERATIONS

Issues pertaining to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) trade and economic agenda will be the focus of two days of deliberations at the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) which opens in Georgetown, Guyana, tomorrow, 29 May 2003.

COTED is responsible for the promotion of trade and economic development of the Community.

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