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It is with a sense of great expectation, that as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I address you at this Opening Ceremony of this historic Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.

Let me at the outset thank the Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honourable David Thompson, Head of Government with Lead Responsibility in the Community for the CSME, for not only being the host of this Convocation but also for conceiving this seminal forum and for contributing so much to making it a reality.

  It is with a sense of great expectation, that as Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, I address you at this Opening Ceremony of this historic Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.

Let me at the outset thank the Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honourable David Thompson, Head of Government with Lead Responsibility in the Community for the CSME, for not only being the host of this Convocation but also for conceiving this seminal forum and for contributing so much to making it a reality.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Region’s private sector and labour are of one accord on the necessity for a more concerted effort by Member States to advance the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) At least five Heads of Government will attend the Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) which will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The status of implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) among Member States will come into sharp focus next week when regional stakeholders meet in Bridgetown, Barbados later this week.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) At least five Heads of Government will attend the Convocation on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) which will be held in Bridgetown, Barbados on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than two hundred students from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be exposed to the operation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) during the period 30 August to 3 October 2009.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The second phase of a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) project to expose tertiary-level education students to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) started on Monday 10 August 2009 with a pre-mission briefing in Saint Lucia. Similar sessions for the second phase of the Students' project will be held in eight other CARICOM Member states.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s Prime Minister the Honourable Michelle Duvivier Pierre Louis has lent her strong support to a public education programme on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in Haiti.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) More than a hundred representatives of the Services Sector in the Caribbean will gather in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda to begin charting a more structured approach to the development of the Sector within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).