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REMARKS BY DR CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CARICOM-UNDP REGIONAL CONSULTATION ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, 5-6 DECEMBER 2001

 

Mr. Chairman
Honourable Prime Minister
Ministers of Government
Other Government Officials
Representatives of Regional Financial Institutions
Members of the Business Sector and Civil Society
Members of the Media
Other Distinguished Participants and Guests at this Opening Session
Ladies and Gentlemen:

ADDRESS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, ON WORLD AIDS DAY 2001

Today, Saturday, 1 December 2001, the entire world finds itself in the vice-like grip of the most devastating disease ever recorded in the long and enduring history of mankind. Since the first clinical evidence of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was reported twenty years ago, an unprecedented 60 million people worldwide have become infected with the deadly virus. At this very juncture, an estimated 40 million people from every place on planet earth, every ethnic origin, every religious culture, and every stratum of society are living with HIV/AIDS.

REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CARIBBEAN REGIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE (CARTAC), 5 NOVEMBER 2001, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS MONDAY

Honourable Prime Ministers of Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Honourable Ministers of Finance
Other Honourable Ministers
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNDP,
Vice-president of the Americas Branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
The President of the Caribbean Development Bank

REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE CARIBBEAN REGIONAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE (CARTAC), 5 NOVEMBER 2001, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS

Honourable Prime Ministers of Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Honourable Ministers of Finance
Other Honourable Ministers
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNDP,
Vice-president of the Americas Branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
The President of the Caribbean Development Bank
Dr. Marion Williams, Governor of the Barbados Central Bank, and other Central Bank Governors

PRESIDENT HIPOLITO MEJIA RECEIVES HIGH LEVEL CARICOM DELEGATION

His Excellency President Hipolito Mejia today received a High-Level Mission from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Mission emanated from the decision taken at the recent CARICOM Emergency Heads of Government Meeting in The Bahamas, called to respond to the fall-out for the Region from the September 11th events in the United States.

REGIONAL RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS/STI UNDER REVIEW BY PROJECT ADVISORY GROUP

The Third Meeting of the Project Advisory Group (PAG) for "Strengthening the Institutional Response to HIV/AIDS/STI in the Caribbean" will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Friday October 26, 2001. This regional project is being funded through the resources of the 8th European Development Fund in the amount of EUR 6,919,220 and executed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat.

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