By mahtabala, 25 April, 2003

CXC: A RESPONSE TO THE REGIONS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT NEEDS : ADDRESS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARICOM, AT THE CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL 30TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE, 24TH APRIL 2003, SHERBOURNE CONFERENCE CENTRE, BARBADOS

Madam Chair (Dr Lucy Steward, Registrar CXC)
Professor Kenneth Hall, Chairman of CXC
Professor Compton Bourne, President of the CDB
Dr. Stafford Griffith, Pro-Registrar CXC
Other Distinguished Guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

By mahtabala, 24 April, 2003

OFFICIALS GATHER IN BARBADOS TO STRATEGIZE ON EPAs

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – As part of accelerated preparations for the negotiation of a regional Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) - with the assistance of the Commonwealth Secretariat - will be convening a series of meetings in Barbados during the period April 28 to May 3, 2003. The meetings are as follows_ * April 28 to May 1 - Caribbean Trade Experts Meeting; * May 2 – Meeting of Officials of CARIFORUM ACP States; * May 3 – Meeting of CARIFORUM Ministers of Trade.

By mahtabala, 14 April, 2003

STATEMENT ON THE WAR IN IRAQ ISSUED BY THE SIXTEENTH MEETING OF THE BUREAU OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 5 APRIL 2003, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA

At its Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting (in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 14-15 February 2003), the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community “considered the situation developing over Iraq and expressed their profound concern at the escalation of global tensions and their grave implications for the preservation of international peace and security.”

Since then there has been an outbreak of war. The Caribbean Community regrets the resulting loss of life on all sides.

By mahtabala, 6 April, 2003

STATEMENT ON THE WAR IN IRAQ ISSUED BY THE SIXTEENTH MEETING OF THE BUREAU OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 5 APRIL 2003, MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA

 
At its Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting (in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 14-15 February 2003), the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community “considered the situation developing over Iraq and expressed their profound concern at the escalation of global tensions and their grave implications for the preservation of international peace and security.”
By mahtabala, 4 April, 2003

THE CARIBBEANS CREATIVE DIVERSITY : THE DEFINING POINT OF THE REGIONS HISTORY LECTURE DELIVERED BY PROF. REX NETTLEFORD, VICE CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, 21 MARCH 2003, UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA, TURKEYEN, GREATER GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

An appreciation of the history of this region is critical to a fuller understanding of contemporary realities and future challenges. For the Caribbean shares in the great drama of the Americas of which it is an integral part, whereby new societies are shaped, new and delicately tuned sensibilities are honed, and appropriate designs for social living are crafted through the cross-fertilisation of disparate elements. The process has resulted in a distinguishable and distinctive entity called “Caribbean”. The process is intensely cultural.

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