ADDRESS BY H.E. THABO MBEKI, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, AT THE OPENING OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), 2 JULY 2003, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA

Most Honourable P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairperson of CARICOM,  Distinguished Heads of State and Government of CARICOM  Your Excellencies: Ministers, Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Delegates and friends On behalf of the African Union and your brothers and siste...
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OPENING REMARKS BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE EIGHTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FINANCE AND PLANNING (COFAP), 28 JUNE 2003, KINGSTON, JAMAICA

Mr. Chairman; Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados; Outgoing Chairman of the Council for Finance and Planning; Other Ministers of Finance and Planning; Central Bank Governors; Representatives of International, Hemispheric and Regional Organisations; Representatives of the Private Sector; Dist...
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REMARKS BY HON. SASENARINE KOWLESSAR, MINISTER WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCE, GUYANA, AT THE EIGHTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FINANCE AND PLANNING (COFAP), 28 JUNE 2003, KINGSTON, JAMAICA

Mr. Secretary-General; Hon. Omar Davies, Minister of Finance and Planning of Jamaica; Assistant Secretary-General, CARICOM; Hon. Prime Ministers; Colleague Ministers of Finance; Central Bank Governors; Representatives of the Donor Community; Delegates and Officials. Having heard the Secretary-Gene...
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CARIBBEAN SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY:  THE WAY FORWARD : ADDRESS BY THE RT. HON. OWEN S. ARTHUR, PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS TO THE TRADE FORUM OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR ORGANIZATION OF JAMAICA ON THE CARIBBEAN SINGLE MARKET AND ECONOMY , 26 JUNE 2003,  KINGSTON, JAMAICA

Apart from the selection and fortunes of the West Indies Cricket team, there is no other issue that evokes, in this region, a richer, more sustained, more fierce, and more misplaced commentary than the purposes and workings of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy. In both instances, the debate ...
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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, an...
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