(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) CARIFORUM Officials will meet with their European Union counterparts in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 8, to convene the First Meeting of the Special Committee on Customs Cooperation and Trade Facilitation under the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
This Special Committee Meeting will be preceded by a CARIFORUM Preparatory Meeting on December 7.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Excellency, on behalf of the CARICOM Delegation, let me begin by saying that it is with great pleasure that we are meeting with you, today in our beautiful Member State, Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is my pleasure and privilege to welcome Directors of Culture and other officials to this Twenty-First Meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee (RCC) on behalf of our Secretary General, His Excellency Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. I also bring very warm greetings from the Officer in Charge of the Directorate of Human and Social Development – Mrs. Myrna Bernard, who sent her regrets that she was unable to join us today due to another conflicting engagement.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) views with deep concern the disclosure of an assassination plot against the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissesar, and some members of her Cabinet. CARICOM is relieved to know that this criminal plot was thwarted and commends the security forces of Trinidad and Tobago for their vigilance.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The flag ceremony with its pomp and fanfare that signaled the start of the 21st Meeting of the CARICOM Regional Cultural Committee in Suriname on Thursday, seguéd into a solemn and sombre minute of silence in honour of several Caribbean cultural icons who died between 2009 and 2010. |
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is now a fait accompli. Suriname will host the 11th staging of the Caribbean premier festival of the creative and performing arts in 2013; this after their first successful hosting in 2003. |
 (CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat has embarked on a series of stakeholder consultations in five Member States – Belize, Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines - to solicit feedback on the draft CARICOM Youth Development Action Plan (CYDAP) 2012 - 2017.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins millions of people around the world in commemorating World AIDS Day – 1 December 2011. This year’s commemoration is appropriately themed “Getting to Zero_ Zero New HIV Infections; Zero Discrimination; and Zero AIDS Related Deaths” calls on all of us to move beyond the traditional routine responses that have been employed in the past in fighting HIV and to use innovative and creative ways in reducing new HIV infections, deaths and discrimination.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General has sounded a call to action toward achieving the elimination of HIV and AIDS, in the Caribbean and the world. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) is well poised to undertake UNAIDS’ challenge of “Getting to Zero_ Zero Discrimination, Zero New Infections and Zero AIDS-related deaths.”
In his World AIDS Day 2011 message, The Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis and PANCAP Chair said it was his firm belief that the Caribbean through PANCAP could make the HIV pandemic a “thing of the past.”