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FORWARD, TOGETHER NOW : SPEECH BY DR. THE HON. RALPH GONSALVES, PRIME MINISTER, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TWENTY-SECOND MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 3 JULY 2001, NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS

The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Barbados, Outgoing Chairman of CARICOM
The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Bahamas, Mr. Hubert Ingraham, the Incumbent Chairman of CARICOM and our wonderful host;
Other distinguished Heads of State and Government;
The Secretary-General of CARICOM, His Excellency Mr. Edwin Carrington;
Ministers of Government of member countries of CARICOM;
Members of the Diplomatic Corps;
Other esteemed invited guests; Ladies, gentlemen and the people of our Caribbean civilisation.

CARICOM: THE PROMISE AND THE REALITY - STATEMENT BY EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIB

 

Thank you for inviting me to participate with you in this important dialogue. It was a pleasure for me to accept the invitation, not only because of the special regard and respect I have for ANSA MACAL, but because of the opportunity this has afforded me to interact with key members in the regional private sector, a sector which has a critical role to play in the implementation of the ongoing project that we call the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.

Twenty years ago on June 18, 1981, the Treaty of Basseterre gave birth to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It’s founding fathers fashioned a remarkable admixture of functional cooperation between its Member-States and an embryonic confederal structure which possesses the seeds for a further deepening or strengthening in the visionary quest for a confederal political union, at a

 

Members of Parliament,
Excellency, Dean of the CARICOM High Commissioners,
Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am very pleased to be here representing CARICOM at this celebration of the 28th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community and the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States - the OECS.

THE OECS IN OUR CARIBBEAN CIVILISATION BY DR. THE HON. RALPH E. GONSALVES, PRIME MINISTER, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANISATION OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES (OECS), 18 JUNE 2001

 

Twenty years ago on June 18, 1981, the Treaty of Basseterre gave birth to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It's founding fathers fashioned a remarkable admixture of functional cooperation between its Member-States and an embryonic confederal structure which possesses the seeds for a further deepening or strengthening in the visionary quest for a confederal political union, at a minimum.

OPENING REMARKS BY HON LESTER B BIRD MP., PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA TO FOURTH JOINT MEETING OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL TASK FORCE ON DRUGS AND MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY 13 JUNE 2001, ST. JOHN’S ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA.

Mr Chairman, Prime Ministers, Ministers, Delegates

Let me first welcome you to Antigua and Barbuda. It is a great pleasure to see you all here.

Remember this is your second Caribbean home. Antigua, after all, is the place where the Caribbean Free Trade Area was conceived at Dickenson Bay in 1965; the location for the creation of the Regional Negotiating Machinery in 1996; and the site for the conceptualisation of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States in 1979.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE FOURTH JOINT MEETING OF IGTF ON DRUGS AND MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY IN ST JOHN’S ANTIGUA 13 JUNE 2001 BY EDWARD GREENE ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CARICOM SECRETARIAT

Hon Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
Hon Prime Minister and Minister of National Security of Trinidad and Tobago
Hon Ministers of Government
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

PREPARED TEXT FOR ADDRESS BY PRIME MINISTER DR. KEITH MITCHELL TO THE E-COMMERCE SEMINAR ORGANISED BY THE GRENADA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND NORTEL NETWORKS LTD., 11 JUNE 2001, ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA

Mr. Noel, Chairman of today's Proceedings,
Chairman of the GIDC, Mr. Anthony Joseph,
General Manager of the GIDC, Mrs. Sonia Roden
President of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Mr. Christopher DeAllie
Mr. Stan Phillip, representative of Nortel Networks Ltd
Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

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