Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at the Sixth Special Meeting of the Conference held on 16 April 1999 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, reviewed the impact on the Caribbean Community of the rulings by the WTO Panel on the revised European Union Banana Regime.
As a result of the deliberations, the CARICOM leaders issued the following statement_
The Tenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, was held in Paramaribo, Suriname on 4-5 March, 1999.
Your Excellency Jules Wijdenbosch, President of Suriname
Chairman of the Caribbean Community
Other distinguished Heads of State and Government
Vice President of Suriname
Speaker of the National Assembly
Hon. Ministers
Members of the Assembly
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Other distinguished guests
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen_
Esteemed Colleagues,
Esteemed Mr. Vice-President
Members of the Council of Ministers
Madam Speaker of the National Assembly
Representatives of High Councils of State
Distinguished Delegates
Member of the Corps Diplomatique
Ladies and Gentlemen
The Second Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee comprising Hon. Ministers responsible for Legal Affairs and Attorneys-General of the Caribbean Community was convened in Nassau, The Bahamas from 7-10 September 1998. The Welcome Address was delivered by the Honourable Tennyson Wells, Attorney-General of The Bahamas and incoming Chairman of the Committee. The Hon. David Simmons, Q.C., M.P., Attorney-General and Minister of Home Affairs of Barbados replied on behalf of the Regional Attorneys-General and Ministers of Legal Affairs.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The Nineteenth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, was held in Castries, Saint Lucia, on 30 June-4 July 1998 with an Opening Ceremony on the evening of 30 June1998 and a Closing Ceremony on 4 July 1998.
The Ninth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in St. George's, Grenada, from 2 to 3 March 1998.
As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, it is not only a very special honour and privilege but also a great pleasure to be able to offer these brief remarks on the occasion of the twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Caribbean Community. The task is all the more pleasant for the fact that I had the good fortune to be at Chaguaramas to witness the signing of the Treaty, which transformed the Caribbean Free Trade Area (CARIFTA) into CARICOM on that historic Fourth of July 1973.