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By mahtabala, 29 January, 2002

OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE NINTH MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL,  26 JANUARY 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Mr. Chairman
Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados
Other Honourable Ministers
Representatives of the European Union (EU)
EU Deputy Regional Officer
Distinguished Delegate
Representatives of the Private Sector
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

Four years ago in Nassau, The Bahamas, this Council held its inaugural meeting. The then Chairman counselled that it behoved us to ensure that this body made certain that the Community could no longer carry on with "business as usual."

By mahtabala, 29 January, 2002

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA THE HONOURABLE LESTER B. BIRD AT THE OPENING OF THE SPECIAL EMERGENCY MEETING OF CARICOM MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR INFORMATION, ANTIGUA, 28 JANUARY 2002

Mr Chairman, Honourable Prime Minister, Ministers, Distinguished Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen.

There can be no question that a great void now exists in the flow of information in the Caribbean.

Throughout the Region, newspapers and radio and television stations are devoid of news and information about events in the Caribbean.

Even the largest of the media entities - those that claim to serve an area wider than the limitations of their national boundaries - have very little information about events outside their national confines.

By mahtabala, 24 January, 2002

STATEMENT BY H.E. ANTHONY SEVERIN, AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF SAINT LUCIA TO THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, THURSDAY, 24 JANU

Your Excellency, Mr. Secretary-General

It is indeed a special privilege, an honour and a great pleasure to present to you this letter of introduction from the Government of Saint Lucia as Saint Lucia's Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Caribbean Community.

By mahtabala, 11 December, 2001

ADDRESS BY RT. HON. HUBERT A. INGRAHAM, PRIME MINISTER, COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS AND CHAIRMAN OF CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AT THE SECOND CARICOM TOURISM SUMMIT,  8 DECEMBER, 2001, NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS

Your Excellencies the Presidents of Guyana and Suriname
Colleague Heads of Government,
Honourable Ministers,
Representatives of Regional Organisations
Senior Government Officials,
Representatives of the Private Sector,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Good Morning,

By mahtabala, 6 December, 2001

REMARKS BY DR CARLA BARNETT, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CARICOM-UNDP REGIONAL CONSULTATION ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES, 5-6 DECEMBER 2001

 

Mr. Chairman
Honourable Prime Minister
Ministers of Government
Other Government Officials
Representatives of Regional Financial Institutions
Members of the Business Sector and Civil Society
Members of the Media
Other Distinguished Participants and Guests at this Opening Session
Ladies and Gentlemen_

By mahtabala, 1 December, 2001

ADDRESS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY ON WORLD AIDS DAY 2001

Today, Saturday, 1 December 2001, the entire world finds itself in the vice-like grip of the most devastating disease ever recorded in the long and enduring history of mankind. Since the first clinical evidence of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was reported twenty years ago, an unprecedented 60 million people worldwide have become infected with the deadly virus. At this very juncture, an estimated 40 million people from every place on planet earth, every ethnic origin, every religious culture, and every stratum of society are living with HIV/AIDS.

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