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We have taken 21 years to return to where we began. When we started we were anxious but ever fearless. However cautious we were of success, we never once doubted our quest: the importance and permanence of the OECS.  When future generations of the Caribbean look back across the passage of our regional development, I have no doubt that they will recognise the beginning of the OECS project as a trul

Honourable Ministers of Government Excellencies Members of Parliament and the Senate Other Distinguished Guests CARICOM Nationals Ladies and Gentlemen I want to thank my friend and colleague Ambassador Bullen for his very kind introduction indeed as I do for the invitation to be here. Ladies and Gen...
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TOWARDS A REGIONAL STAKEHOLDER FORUM ON YOUTH

The just concluded CARICOM Inter-Agency Meeting on Youth has reported progress towards the creation of an enabling environment for youth development and empowerment in the Community. The CARICOM Inter-Agency Forum will be working towards developing an integrated regional initiative, bringing toget...
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CARICOM PREPARES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ENCOUNTER, SUMMIT

Preparations for the Twenty Third Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and for the Civil Society Conference "Forward Together" dominated the discussions at the Tenth Meeting of CARICOM's Community Council of Ministers. The Community Council, CARICOM's second highes...
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REGIONAL AIDS PROJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP TO REVIEW ITS WORK

The Fourth Meeting of the Project Management Group responsible for "Strengthening the Institutional Response to HIV/AIDS/STI in the Caribbean (SIRHASC)" will be held at the Sunset Shores Hotel in St. Vincent and the Grenadines from 6-7 June 2002. The meeting will be coordinated by the Project Impl...
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STATEMENT BY HON K.D. KNIGHT, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE OF JAMAICA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED)AT THE THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE COTED, 27-28 MAY 2002,  GEORGETOWN GUYANA

  Salutations. It is again a great pleasure to be in Guyana, and particularly so during the celebration of the 36th anniversary of Independence.  On behalf of all of us I congratulate the Government and People of Guyana on this important national milestone, and further express sincere appr...
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OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 27-28 MAY 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Mr. Chairman, Hon. K.D. Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica Outgoing Chairman, Hon. Clement Rohee, Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana Hon Billie Miller Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados Other ...
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