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LIVE BROADCAST OF CARICOM HEADS SUMMIT

Millions of people across the Caribbean and in the diaspora will enjoy a live broadcast of the opening ceremony for the 23rd Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community on 3 July 2002. The live broadcast is being sponsored by the Caribbean Community Secretariat using ...
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S-G CARRIES THE MESSAGE TO THE DIASPORA IN NORTH AMERICA

CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr Edwin Carrington concluded a whirlwind five-day visit to North America on Friday June 21, with an address to a CARICOM Day celebration at New York's Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn. Earlier in the week, Mr Carrington had delivered the feature address at CARICOM Da...
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ADDRESS BY DR. CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, TO THE OPENING SESSION OF THE MEETING OF EXPERTS OF THE CARIBBEAN SUB-REGION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, 20-21 JUNE 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

I am very pleased to be here this morning to participate in the opening session of this meeting of Experts of the Caribbean Sub-Region on Violence against Women, and I wish to thank the organizers for giving me the opportunity to make a few brief remarks on this occasion. The Inter-American Comm...
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Technological developments and the policies underpinning the current phase of the globalisation process are leading to a widening of several development gaps between the industrially advanced and poorer countries, in particular small countries. In our presentation at the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, we drew attention to five (5) critica

Mr Chairman Your Excellency the Governor-General of St Kitts-Nevis, Colleague Heads of Government Ministers Your Lordship The Chief Justice Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps Ladies and Gentlemen. We have taken 21 years to return to where we began. When we started we were anxious but eve...
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THE WIDENING DEVELOPMENT GAPS: HOW CAN CROSS-SECTORAL PARTNERSHIPS ASSIST SMALL CARICOM COUNTRIES MEET THE CHALLENGE :  PRESENTATION BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, TO WORLD BANK STAFF EXCHANGE PROGRAMME, 19 JUNE 2002, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Technological developments and the policies underpinning the current phase of the globalisation process are leading to a widening of several development gaps between the industrially advanced and poorer countries, in particular small countries. In our presentation at the United Nations Conference on...
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