Press Releases

By mahtabala, 4 July, 2004

Mr. Chairman;
Colleague Heads of Government;
Distinguished Members of the Legislative,
Judicial and Executive Authorities of Grenada;
Esteemed Secretary General of the Commonwealth;
Esteemed Secretary General of the Organisation of American States;
Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps;
Distinguished Delegates;
Specially Invited Guests;
Ladies and Gentlemen;
Brothers and Sisters_

By mahtabala, 3 July, 2004

Fellow citizens of the Caribbean Community, on July 4 2004 we celebrate CARICOM Day, marking the 31st Anniversary of our integration movement. We are doing so fully cognizant that our Community at this time continues to face tough challenges, but equally aware that there are many exciting new possibilities for us opening up in our Region, our hemisphere and in the globalised world.

By mahtabala, 2 July, 2004

Radio Caricom will be officially launched at the 25th Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government in Grenada on 4 July 2004

It will be established in all Member States over a short period of time with Barbados, Belize, Grenada, and St. Lucia, regarded as "pilot States" in the project, coming online in 2004. Radio Caricom will eventually become a common source of information on the Caribbean Community for all Member States, and available in all Member States.

By mahtabala, 2 July, 2004

Members of staff of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat met in a two-day retreat in Georgetown, Guyana on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 20-21) to devise strategies to assist the Organisation to more effectively and efficiently serve the Region and its people. The retreat was part of an organisational change and refocusing exercise, which is being undertaken in several phases at the Georgetown-based Secretariat that serves as the implementation arm of the 15-member Regional Grouping.

By mahtabala, 25 June, 2004

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Hon. Baldwin Spencer has assured that diplomatic relations between Haiti and many Members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) remain intact, but said that the return to constitutional and democratic processes that underpin Haiti's development are prerequisites for participation in the Councils of the Regional grouping by its newest Member State.

By mahtabala, 24 June, 2004

The implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) by 2005 is crucial to the social and economic advancement of the peoples of the Region in an era of increased globalisation and dominance by large economic groupings, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer told staff of the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana today.

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By mahtabala, 24 June, 2004

The implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) by 2005 is crucial to the social and economic advancement of the peoples of the Region in an era of increased globalisation and dominance by large economic groupings, Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Hon. Baldwin Spencer told staff of the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana today.

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By mahtabala, 24 June, 2004

CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington today vehemently denied statements attributed to him in an Agence France Presse (AFP) report of 22 June on Haiti's relations with the Community.

Mr. Carrington is reported by AFP to have said that the Prime Minister of Haiti's Transitional Government, Mr. Gerard Latortue needed "to reconsider his country's withdrawal from the regional organization" and that "Haiti has to recreate the atmosphere which it destroyed."

By mahtabala, 24 June, 2004

Introduction

The Florida-Caribbean relationship is both historical and strategic. The Caribbean benefitted in the World War II and post-World War II periods as significant numbers of Caribbean farm workers found employment building the Florida Sugar and Citrus Industries. The strong agrarian Florida economy laid the base for its current dynamic industrial and service-based economy. The new economy has attracted more highly skilled Caribbean migrant workers and professionals and stimulated a vibrant tourist trade.