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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Edwin Carrington has expressed gratitude to the government of France for its support to the Caribbean during the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) which concludes on April 28.

France readily acceded to the Region’s request for medical emergency facilities in support of its widespread efforts to ensure a safe and secure CWC, the Secretary General said.

Ambassador Jean-Paul Dumont, Plenipotentiary Representative (Designate) of the Republic of France to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite
Assistant Secretaries-General
Other Members of Staff of the CARICOM Secretariat
Representatives of the Media

Excellency, in November of 2005, I was pleased to receive, on behalf of the Caribbean Community, the credentials of your predecessor, His Excellency Ambassador Boursin, as the French Republic’s first Ambassador accredited to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) History was created when Spain’s first Ambassador to CARICOM presented credentials to CARICOM Secretary-General H.E. Edwin Carrington on Tuesday 17 April at CARICOM Headquarters in Georgetown.

Ambassador Jesus Silva in remarks at the ceremony saw this development as the beginning of “another phase between the already deep relations between Spain and CARICOM”; one that signals Spain’s deepening political commitment to the Caribbean Region.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Spain and the European Union (EU) are observing with “interest and admiration”, the efforts of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in its integration process, says Ambassador Jesus Silva.

“This meeting was timely and useful. We heard Director General Lamy’s perspectives on the current status of the negotiations, the obstacles that impede real progress and the way forward in the negotiations. The Caribbean used the opportunity to reiterate our priorities and articulate our key issues in the Doha Development Round of negotiations”.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General, H.E. Edwin Carrington will lead a delegation from the Secretariat to participate in landmark meetings with Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Caribbean Ministers of Trade, in Kingston, Jamaica April 12 and 13. The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will also participate in the discussions on strategies aimed at adding political impetus to re-start suspended global free trade talks.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater, Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Edwin Carrington on Tuesday April 3, 2007, invested cricket legend Clive Hubert Lloyd with the title `Champion for Change’ in the fight against HIV and AIDS, with special reference to the reduction of stigma and discrimination.

The conferral ceremony was held at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr the Hon Ralph Gonsalves has called upon the Community to use the occasion of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as an opportunity to teach the younger generation of the region, the history, the lessons and the effects of slavery and to ensure that this tragedy “is never again experienced in old or new forms.”

Some aspects of the Sunset Legislation currently in place in the nine countries hosting Cricket World Cup 2007,in the Caribbean may remain, but others may not, Chairman of the Caribbean Community, Dr. The Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said yesterday.

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Under the theme CARICOM Reflects…Never Forget, The Caribbean Community Secretariat (CCS) in the second of a series of activities to mark the beginning of the 200th Anniversary year of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, hosted a distinguished lecture presented by highly acclaimed Surinamese author and historian, Cynthia McLeod on the topic_ Elisabeth Samson_ The Role and Position of Women in the Caribbean during Slavery, at the CARICOM Secretariat on Tuesday, March 27, 2007.