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CARICOM READY TO CONTINUE ROLE IN GUYANA ACCORD

The Caribbean Community - CARICOM, is ready to continue playing a role in the full implementation of the Herdmanston Accord it brokered with Guyana's political parties following the post December 15, 1997 election unrest. This assurance was given by Jamaica's Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. P.J. Patters...
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LAW AND TRADE IN CARICOM SPOTLIGHT

Two significant meetings in the lead up to the XIXth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community take place in Georgetown, Guyana next week. The Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) and the Legal Affairs Committee will both convene with COTED taking plac...
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CARICOM CHAIRMAN PRESENTS REPORT ON TUESDAY

Chairman of CARICOM, Dr the Hon. Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada will formally hand over the CARICOM Audit Team's Report on Guyana's December 15 General Elections on Tuesday June 2, 1998. The Audit team led by former Trinidad and Tobago Appeal Court Judge Mr Ulric Cross completed its assig...
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COMMUNITY COUNCIL MINISTERS MEET IN GUYANA

Ministers of the Caribbean Community's second highest organ - The Community Council, will tomorrow begin a two-day meeting at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana. Ministers will consider the draft Rules of Procedure for the Community Council, and are expected to adopt the final rules which...
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Statement on News Item dated 30 April 1998

In the edition of the Chronicle dated April 30, 1998, there is a report on the Front Page with the headline "CARICOM clerk held with cocaine". The CARICOM Secretariat wishes to state that the accused referred to in the report ceased being an employee of the CARICOM Secretariat since March 31, 1998. ...
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COHSOD PASSES RESOLUTION TO ELIMINATE RUBELLA IN THE CARIBBEAN

The CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development has set the goal for the elimination of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome from the Caribbean Community by the end of the year 2000. The Resolution, passed at the first Ministerial Meeting of COHSOD, held at the Crowne Plaza Kingston Hotel, f...
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