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(Mexico, April 7-8, 1988) The second meeting of the Mexico-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Joint Commission was held in Mexico City on 7-8 April, 1988. The Mexican Delegation was led by Ambassador Miguel Angel Olea Sisniega, General Coordinator of Advisors to the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The Caribbean Delegation, in turn, was led by Mr. Roderick Rainford, Secretary-General of CARICOM. |
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The Eight Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean community was held in Castries, Saint Lucia from 29 June 1987 to 3 July 1987. For the first time since that Inaugural Meeting of the Conference in Saint Lucia in 1974, all Member States were represented by their Heads of Government. The Heads of Government in attendance were_ Dr. The Rt. Hon. Vere Bird, Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda; the Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister, The Bahamas; The Hon. Erskine Sandiford, Prime Minister, Barbados; the RT. Hon.
The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community held its Seventh Meeting in Georgetown, Guyana from 1st to 4th July, 1986. All thirteen Member States were represented, as follows – The Hon.. Lester Bird, Deputy Prime Minister, Antigua and Barbuda; The Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister, The Bahamas; The Rt. Hon. Manuel Esquivel, Prime Minister, Belize; The Hon. Mary Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister, Dominica; The Hon.
The Sixth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held at Sam Lord's Castle, St. Philips, Barbados, from 1-4 July 1985. Twelve Member States were represented at the Meeting as follows - The Rt. Hon. Vere Bird, Prime Minister Antigua and Barbuda; The Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden O. Pindling, Prime Minister, The Bahamas, The Hon. Bernard St. John, Prime Minister, Barbados; The Hon. Manuel Esquivel, Prime Minister, Belize; The Hon. Herbert Blaize, Prime Minister, Grenada; His Excellency Cde. Forbes Burnham President of Guyana; The Rt. Hon.
1. Introduction
Last year at Nassau, we, the Heads of Government of the Member States of the Caribbean Community, reached an understanding on the policies and actions that our Governments would take to promote structural adjustment, accelerated development and regional integration among the CARICOM countries.
The Fifth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held in Nassau, The Bahamas from 4th to 7th July 1984. Eleven States were represented by their Heads of Government; the Rt. Hon. V.C. Bird, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; the Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden Pindling, Prime Minister of the Bahamas; the Rt. Hon. J.M.G. Adams, Prime Minister, Barbados; the Rt. Hon. George Price, Prime Minister, Belize; the Hon. Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister, Dominica; Mr. Nicholas Brathwaite, Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council, Grenada; H. E.
The Fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community was held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from 4-8 July 1983. Twelve States were represented by their Heads of Government_ the Rt. Hon. Sir Lynden Pindling, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas; Rt. Hon. J.M.G. Adams, Barbados; the Rt. Hon. George Price, Belize; Hon. Mary Eugenia Charles, Commonwealth of Dominica; Hon. Maurice Bishop, Grenada; President Forbes Burnham, Guyana; the Rt. Hon. Edward Seaga, Jamaica; Hon. John Osbourne, Montserrat; Hon. Dr Kennedy Simmonds, St. Kitts-Nevis; Hon.
We the Heads of Government of Member States of the Caribbean Community and The Bahamas here assembled -
Deeply aware of our situation as small States, for the most part newly independent, island-developing, prone to natural disasters and with small open economies particularly vulnerable to turbulence and pressures from within the international economic system;