Other Countries

The bonds of cooperation between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Japan will be further strengthened when their representatives meet in Georgetown, Guyana for their Seventh Consultation on 8-9 November 1999.

During the first round of the two-day meeting, the deliberations will be directed at a range of policy issues including the CARICOM/Japan Economic Technical Cooperation and Cultural Exchange in which the representatives will review activities from 1993 to the current period, and consider priority areas for further cooperation.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Spain are poised to start an exciting new phase in their relationship.

This is the result of a two-day seminar at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago which ended on Saturday October 30, 1999. The CARICOM Secretariat, Latin American Economic System (SELA), and the Spanish Agency for International Co-Operation (AECI) organised the seminar as a follow up to the discussion held in Port-of-Spain last July during the visit of Spanish Prime Minister Don Jose Maria Aznar.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Latin American Economic System (SELA) and the Spanish Agency for International Co-operation (AECI) will meet at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) Secretariat's offices in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 29-30 October 1999.

This meeting comes in the wake of the discussions held last July in Port-of-Spain between CARICOM leaders and the Prime Minister of Spain, Don Jose Maria Aznar prior to the XIX Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community.

Mr. President,
Distinguished delegates,

Mr President, we thank you for the opportunity to address this august chamber on a subject which spells life or death to the countries of our Region - the Caribbean.

Held as it was in Barbados - a founding Member State of the Caribbean Community - the 1994 SIDS Conference and the resultant Barbados Plan of Action are of particular significance to the Caribbean Community.

The good relations between Canada and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) were once again demonstrated when that country made a presentation of 100,000 Canadian Dollars to assist in the work of the constitutional reform process in CARICOM Member State, Guyana.

At a simple ceremony on Thursday, 9 September, at the CARICOM Secretariat's Headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana , H.E. Mr. Kamoji Wachiira, High Commissioner (Acting) of Canada to Guyana presented the cheque to CARICOM Secretary-General, Mr. Edwin Carrington.

I am very pleased to participate in the third meeting of the US-Caribbean Joint Committee on Department, Finance, and the Environment. Since the signing of the Bridgetown Accord just over two years ago, USAID has played a key role in assisting both the USG and the Caribbean governments pursue our joint commitments under the Accord. The extra ordinarily high degree of cooperation between U.S.

Two CARICOM nationals, the first, graduated from Mexican Naval Academies this week , the result of the CARICOM/Mexican Cooperation Programme.

In 1995, the Government of Mexico, under the aegis of the CARICOM/Mexico Technical Cooperation Programme, awarded full four-year scholarships to five CARICOM cadets to pursue courses leading to a first degree in naval studies.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) Just days before their own XX Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, eleven (11) CARICOM Leaders will attend the historic Inter-Hemispheric Summit between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

A Special Meeting of the Conference Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community is being organised to take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Friday, 16 April.