ESTABLISHMENT OF CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AND COMMON MARKET
The Eight Heads of Government Conference, which met in Georgetown from 9th – 12th April, 1973, has decided to establish the Caribbean Community (including the Caribbean Common Market.)
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The Seventh Heads of Government Conference of Commonwealth Caribbean Countries has agreed that the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) will become a Common Market on 1st May, 1973, the fifth Anniversary of CARIFTA.
The Conference was described by delegates in closing speeches as the most important, historic and epoch-making to be held in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
The Meeting of Heads of Government of Signatory States of the Grenada Declaration convened in Georgetown, Guyana, on Monday, November 8, 1971. Those attending the Meeting as Leaders of Delegations were the Hon. E.O. Le Blanc, Premier of Dominica, the Hon. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, the Hon. R.L. Bradshaw, Premier of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, the Hon. R.M. Cato, Premier of St. Vincent and the Hon. D> Sylvester, Minister of Health and Local Government of Grenada. Also present at the meeting were the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Caribbean Regional Secretariat. Mr.
The Second Plenary Session of the Sixth Heads of Government Conference of Commonwealth Caribbean Countries today appointed two Committees to consider a number of the items on the Agenda.
The Sixth Heads of Government of Commonwealth Caribbean Countries was officially opened this morning by His Excellency, Sir Clifford Campbell, Governor General of Jamaica at the Sheraton Kingston Hotel. A reply to the Governor General's address was made by the Hon. R.M. Cato, Premier of St. Vincent.
Delegations attending the Conference are from the eleven Member Territories of the Caribbean Free Trade Association, the Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands and British Honduras (Belize).
The Conference is scheduled to conclude on Friday 18th April 1970.
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The Second Conference of Heads of Government of Commonwealth Caribbean Countries took place at Headquarters House, Kingston, Jamaica, from January 13 to 17, 1964, under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Donald Sangster, Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica and Minister of Finance. The First Conference was held in Trinidad from July 22 to 25, 1963, at the National Museum and Art Gallery, Port-of-Spain, under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.