The people of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are being urged to explore new avenues of wealth creation as offered through the Regional Stock Exchange currently in operation in Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Twenty seven Caribbean youth leaders have been invested as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors at the just concluded Regional Youth Explosion 2000 at the St George's University Campus in St. George's, Grenada (17-23 July, 2000) to take forward a goodwill mission for Youth empowerment in the regional integration process.
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mr. Edwin W. Carrington, is in Japan working with officials there to add new impetus to CARICOM-Japan cooperation with their immediate priority being to focus on establishing a Foreign Ministerial forum.
The youth leadership in the Caribbean is moving into the main-stream of the regional decision-making process, making full use of the parliamentary process to give sound effect to the issues they considered urgent and critical to regional development and youth empowerment.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has noted that Haiti held the second round of its legislative, municipal and local elections on Sunday 9 July 2000.
CARICOM regrets that after a satisfactory electoral process on 21 May 2000, a disputed interpretation of the electoral law was employed in determining the results of the senatorial elections.
Honourable Prime Minister
Her Excellency the First Lady
Former President and Leader of the Opposition
Chancellor of the Judiciary
Speaker of the National Assembly
Honourable Ministers
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Distinguished Guests
Deputy Secretary-General and Staff of the Secretariat
Members of the Media
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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat will say "thanks" to 31 members of staff who have provided between ten and thirty years of service in the discharge of the Secretariat's functions throughout the Community.
The function will take place at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street, Georgetown, on Friday July 21, 2000, on the occasion of the Twenty-seventh Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas.
More than 90 youth delegates representing 18 Caribbean territories move into the third round of deliberations today, up-beat on their course of action to make a formidable impact in moving forward the implementation of decisions and recommendations pertaining to the empowerment and development of Caribbean youth which have arisen out of conferences and workshops held over the past five years.
In my capacity as Lead Spokesman for the Caribbean Community on Bananas I sent off a letter on Saturday July 8, 2000 to the President of the General Affairs Council of the European Union Mr. Hubert Vedrine, expressing alarm at the recent proposals submitted by the Commission with a view to resolving the Banana dispute on Monday July 10, 2000.
One hundred and ten (110) Caribbean youth representing 22 countries will meet in Grenada, 17-23 July, 2000, to review the status of implementation of decisions and recommendations pertaining to the empowerment and development of Caribbean youth which have arisen out of conferences and workshops held over the past five years.