The overall objectives of the Workshop were to garner feedback and finalize the Study being done to establish Regional sustainable energy targets, as well as, to build awareness about the process going forward to fully establish the C-SERMS. Approximately Sixty persons were in attendance including Senior Energy Officials, members of the diplomatic corps, representatives from the public and private sectors of CARICOM Member States, regional Universities and technical experts.
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Hyatt Regency
Good morning, on behalf of Prime Minister the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the Government welcome to Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) On behalf of the Secretary-General of Caribbean Community, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development on Energy being held here in Trinidad and Tobago. The Secretary General sincerely regrets that he could not be here at this so important COTED Energy Meeting.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the energy sector across the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Thursday gathered in Trinidad and Tobago for an exchange of views on the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS). The document is being used to guide the Region’s progress in the use of renewable energy and set energy efficiency targets.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, under the auspices of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Implementation Unit, will from 7-8 March be convening the Second Meeting of Legislative Drafters to consider and refine draft Model Bills intended to give effect to provisions of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM)-European Union (EU) EPA. The Meeting is to be held in Trinidad and Tobago.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Energy were on Friday confident of approval of the Regional Energy Policy which has been on the table for the past ten years.
The Policy’s imminent approval by the Ministers was a reference point of the speakers at the Opening Ceremony of the Forty-First Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy held at the Hyatt Regency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Policy is a key agenda item of the one-day Meeting.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Energy in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) comes under focus this week as portfolio Ministers meet in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, for a Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
Officials in the Energy Sector met in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday ahead of the 41st Special Meeting of COTED on Energy which will be convened on Friday at the Hyatt Regency under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Rayburn Blackmoore, Minister of Public Works, Energy and Ports, Dominica.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr. the Honourable Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, will lead his delegation to a Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Energy which will be held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 1 March.
Mr. Charles Kirnon, Deputy Premier of Montserrat is also to attend the special one-day Meeting.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Fourth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti, from 18-19 February 2013. His Excellency, Michel Joseph Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti, presided.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Twenty-Fourth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Port-au-Prince, Republic of Haiti, from 18-19 February 2013. His Excellency, Michel Joseph Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti, presided.