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PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CARICOM FACILITATOR WITH REGARD TO A VISIT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF SAINT LUCIA, DR. THE HONOURABLE KENNY ANTHONY

Dr. the Honourable Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia will visit Guyana on Friday and Saturday, 22-23 October 1999.

Prime Minister Anthony was assigned responsibility by the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community for the implementation of the Herdmanston Accord and the Saint Lucia Statement. This assignment is in pursuance of the commitment of the Heads of Government to support the process of political normalisation in Guyana.

Address by the Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, at the Opening of the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), 8 October 1999, Georgetown, Guyana

Mr Chairman
Other Distinguished Ministers
Other Distinguished Delegates
Secretariat Staff
Members of the Media

Good Morning. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Secretariat and the Seventh Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I expect that this will be our last meeting for this year 1999, indeed for this century, and it would be very fitting if we can make it a memorable one by taking the necessary decisions to lay the ground for the beginning of the next year and the new century.

SPEECH BY THE HONOURABLE HILROY HUMPHREYS, MINISTER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SEVENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 8 OCTOBER 1999, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Outgoing Chairman of the COTED
Other distinguished colleagues,
Excellencies,
Delegates,
Ladies and gentlemen,

Please permit me to commence my brief remarks by expressing appreciation on behalf of all delegates to the Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Secretariat for the warm and splendid arrangements offered our delegations. It is always a pleasure to visit Georgetown, even if it is only for 48 hours.

STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE TWENTY SECOND SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES, 28 SEPTEMBER 1999, NEW YORK

Mr. President,
Distinguished delegates,

Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region - the Caribbean.

Held as it was in Barbados - a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community - the 1994 SIDS Conference and the resultant Barbados Plan of Action are of particular significance to the Caribbean Community.

PRESIDENT JOINS SECRETARIAT STAFF IN PAYING RESPECTS TO COLLEAGUE

His Excellency, the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo was a welcome surprise guest at a ceremony on Wednesday morning at which members of staff of the CARICOM Secretariat remembered their colleague, Ms Silvana Jordan.

The President gave his personal reminiscences of his friend Silvana Jordan with whom he had attended Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow, Russia 16 years ago.

STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF MS SILVANA JORDAN

Ms Silvana Jordan, Senior Project Officer, Communications Unit at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat died in a vehicular accident on Monday September 20, 1999.

Ms Jordan, 36, who joined the Secretariat in June1996, was the first Surinamese national to be employed at the Secretariat following the accession of Suriname to membership of the Caribbean Community and Common Market in July 1995.

CANADA SUPPORTS GUYANA’S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

The good relations between Canada and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were once again demonstrated when that country made a presentation of 100,000 Canadian Dollars to assist in the work of the constitutional reform process in CARICOM Member State, Guyana.

At a simple ceremony on Thursday, 9 September, at the CARICOM Secretariat's Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana , H.E. Mr. Kamoji Wachiira, High Commissioner (Acting) of Canada to Guyana presented the cheque to CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin Carrington.

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