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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been called upon to revamp the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) by establishing the Partnership as the Caribbean’s leader in promoting human rights and developing legislation to protect the rights of those persons living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. |
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​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Permit me first to recognize the presence of the Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Minister of the Environment, Foreign Trade and Export Development of Grenada at his first meeting of the COTED. I also wish to recognize the presence of Sir Edwin Carrington, Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM and immediate past Secretary-General of CARICOM.
​(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Let me start by officially welcoming Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to his first meeting of the COTED in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community. We are all aware of Ambassador LaRocque’s long-standing relationship with the COTED, first as the representative of Dominica and later as the Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration in the CARICOM Secretariat.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) must sustain the Caribbean’s response to HIV and AIDS if the Region is to meet UNAIDS’ target of zero new infections, discrimination and AIDS –related deaths by 2015. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Permit me first to recognize the presence of the Hon. Joseph Gilbert, Minister of the Environment, Foreign Trade and Export Development of Grenada at his first meeting of the COTED. I also wish to recognize the presence of Sir Edwin Carrington, Ambassador of Trinidad and Tobago to CARICOM and immediate past Secretary-General of CARICOM.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Let me start by officially welcoming Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to his first meeting of the COTED in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community. We are all aware of Ambassador LaRocque’s long-standing relationship with the COTED, first as the representative of Dominica and later as the Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic Integration in the CARICOM Secretariat.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers have been cautioned to pay attention to human and social matters and not to focus only on trade and economics. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The time was ripe for the review of the performance and the method of work of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), and for strategizing on its new direction that would take into account the current global economic reality, Senator the Hon. Maxine McClean told her colleagues Thursday.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The need for the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to strengthen relations with the private sector was one of the key messages Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), gave to the Region’s Trade Ministers at the Opening Ceremony of the Council’s two-day Thirty-Third Meeting. |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is moving to improve the understanding in Suriname of legislative processes in CARICOM.
From 21-22 November, legal experts within the CARICOM Secretariat will engage legal officials from various government departments in Suriname, in the CARICOM Law and Legislative Drafting Seminar. The seminar is being supported by the European Union, through the European Development Fund.