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CARICOM AND COSTA RICA INITIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
After three rounds of negotiations CARICOM and Costa Rica concluded a Free Trade Agreement which holds the promise of significantly increasing trade between thirteen CARICOM countries and Costa Rica, a market of some 4 million persons. The negotiations were concluded in San José, Costa Rica, on 15 March 2003, with the initialling of the Agreement by the CARICOM negotiating spokesperson, Mr. Byron Blake, Assistant Secretary General of the Caribbean Community Secretariat and Mr. Fernando Ocampo, Director General of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica.
REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), AT THE OPENING OF THE FOURTEENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 14 FEBRUARY 2003, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
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Press release 30/2003 Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen |
THE CARIBBEAN SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY: IS IT REALISTIC WITHOUT COMMITMENT TO POLITICAL UNITY? Havelock R. Brewster
A. From Common Market to Single Market and Economy
A 'single market' is a space within which goods and services, people, capital and technology freely circulate. When created among States, it involves, so far as market transactions are concerned, the complete removal of physical, technical and fiscal frontiers. Thus, for example, moving goods or services, capital or people from Trinidad and Tobago to Barbados would be no different from moving them across parish borders in Barbados itself.
CARICOM TORCH OF UNITY RUN ON THIRD LEG
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Torch of Unity run is moving across Guyana on the third leg of its journey across the Region.
CARICOM SECRETARY GENERAL ON MISSION TO THE BAHAMAS
Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr Edwin Carrington will lead a delegation on a two-day Briefing Mission to The Bahamas, on 13-14 March 2003. During the mission the Secretary General and his team will meet with high-level government officials, the Opposition, The Bahamas Trade Commission (BTC) and the Bahamian public.
PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR CCJ INCREASING
Public support across the region for the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had risen from 68% in 2000 to 80% in 2002 reported Mr. Sheldon Mc Donald, CCJ Project Coordinator in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. He said that all member states of CARICOM are united in their support for the establishment of the regional Court.
STATEMENT BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND STAFF OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE CONTINUING VIOLENT LOSS OF LIFE IN GUYANA
The Secretary-General and staff of the Caribbean Community have been deeply concerned by the difficult times which our Member States have recently been enduring. No issue has concerned us more than the rising crime wave which threatens to envelop the Region. And in this regard, no situation has disturbed us more than that in Guyana, the Headquarters of the Community, and the Member State wherein we and our families have made our home, however temporarily.