By mahtabala, 26 April, 2001

MESSAGE FROM THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION ON THE FIRST WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY - APRIL 26, 2001

Creating the Future Today - this is the theme of the first World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, 2001. Four words that underscore the importance of innovators and artists to the development and growth of societies everywhere.

We owe the inventions, designs and works of art that ease our workload, improve our living conditions and enrich and beautify our surroundings, to a long line of men and women whose creativity and invention have led us from the inkwell to the Internet and from railways to rockets.

By mahtabala, 26 April, 2001

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICIAL MEETS CARICOM DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

Mr. Richard Wilkinson, The Director for the Americas of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the United Kingdom, and H.E. Mr. Richard Glover, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to Guyana, on 25 April, 2001 paid a courtesy call on Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr. Carla Barnett.

By mahtabala, 23 April, 2001

“CREATING PROSPERITY” : SPEECH BY HON. LESTER B. BIRD, PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, AT THE SECOND PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA

Mr. Chairman, each of us is here as a representative of people. Some may be called Canadians, others Antiguans, yet others Americans. They are all people with basic aspirations to live a life in freedom, to raise their children, to feed them properly, give them education, good housing and health care.

By mahtabala, 23 April, 2001

STATEMENT REGARDING THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITYS SUPPORT FOR THE RE-ELECTION OF H.E. MR. KOFI ANNAN TO

Foreign Ministers of the Countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) namely Antigua and Barbuda, etc. pay tribute to His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan for his dedicated service to the international community during his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations especially in the area of international peace and security, the eradication of poverty, sustainable economic development in the context of changing technology, international trade relations and fiscal and monetary policy, and, administrative reform.

By mahtabala, 22 April, 2001

DEMOCRACY IN CARICOM AND IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE : SPEECH DELIVERED BY DR. THE HON. KENNY D. ANTHONY, PRIME MINISTER, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE 1ST PLENARY SESSION OF THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 21 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of Government,

On behalf of the St. Lucia delegation, the delegations of the English-speaking Caribbean, and the delegations of the CARICOM sub-region, I wish to thank you for the warm and friendly welcome, and for the professional and efficient arrangements that the support staff of this summit have afforded to our delegations. The people of Canada have demonstrated amply to us that there is no effective correlation between temperature and temperament.

By mahtabala, 22 April, 2001

CIVIL SOCIETY : PREPARED TEXT FOR REMARKS BY HON. KEITH MITCHELL, PRIME MINISTER OF GRENADA AT THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20-22 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA

Your Excellency,  Prime Minister Jean Cretien,  Heads of States and Governments,  Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.  

Mr. Chairman I feel particularly privileged today to speak at this historic Summit that highlights the importance of the process of democracy and good governance. This is so, as Grenada has gone through the process of a revolutionary dictatorial system in the period 1979 to1983; and has emerged into a striving democratic system of government. It is said that those who feel it, know it best.

By mahtabala, 21 April, 2001

REMARKS ON “A HEMISPHERIC COMMUNITY FOR A GLOBAL AGE” BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE OWEN ARTHUR, CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, AT THE THIRD SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA

I address you today in the name of the people of the Caribbean Community. In that spirit, I am pleased to recognise that the enterprise we are engaged in today in Quebec City began in the Caribbean almost two centuries ago.

For it was in Jamaica in 1815 that the great apostle of freedom, Simon Bolivar, wrote in his famous letter, "More than anyone else, I desire to see America fashioned into the greatest nation in the world, greatest not so much by virtue of her area and wealth as, by her freedom and glory".

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By mahtabala, 21 April, 2001

THE OECD TAX IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME_ SPEAKING NOTES BY THE HON LESTER B. BIRD, PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ON BEHALF OF THE CARIBBEAN STATES AT A MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, 20 APRIL 2001, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA

Mr President

Let me first join my colleagues in expressing our appreciation to you and Secretary of State Powell for this opportunity to exchange views with you on issues of mutual importance. I have been asked to present our case with regard to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its harmful tax competition scheme. This scheme poses an immediate and detrimental threat to nine of the fourteen countries represented at this table. If it is allowed to continue, it will eventually engulf all of them.

By mahtabala, 6 April, 2001

CARIBBEAN FELLOWSHIP INC. LITERARY WORKSHOP TO GET UNDER WAY

A literary workshop, at which participants are expected to be exposed to  enhanced writing skills, is set to get underway on Monday, April 9, 2001 at the Hotel Tower, Georgetown.

The workshop, which is being conducted by young, successful Caribbean author, Colin Channer, one of the contemporary voices writing in the regional idiom, falls under the aegis of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Guyana (UG), in collaboration with Caribbean Fellowship Inc. It will be guided by the theme "Writing the warm easy and easy way".