(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) “The creation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy is vital to our survival as small states, critical to our development within the prevailing global economic system, and central to our strategy to improve the quality of life of our people.” This, according to Dr Hilary Brown, CARICOM Secretariat’s Programme Manager, Culture and Community Development, as she addressed the Opening Ceremony of the four-day Caribbean Youth Exchange Conference underway in Haiti on Thursday.
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Colleague Prime Ministers of the Subcommittee on the CSME Honourable Prime Ministers of the Community Ministers of Government Secretary-General |
Colleague Prime Ministers of the Subcommittee on the CSME
Honourable Prime Ministers of the Community
Ministers of Government
Secretary-General
Ladies and gentlemen
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) All speakers at the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) identified the greater convergence of Caribbean Community economies as a means of combating global financial and economic crises.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown Guyana) Haiti is expected to participate in at least one component of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy, (CSME) by the first quarter of 2009.
The fundamental components of the CSME are free movement of goods and services, free movement of people and skills, and the right of establishment of business entities within the Community. Haiti’s participation in the CSME will increase the size of CARICOM’s market under the CSME to an unprecedented 15 million people.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The need for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to forge ahead with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) in order to adequately and collectively respond to the current global financial and economic crisis was underscored yesterday at the official opening of the Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Monday, at Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel.
His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), officially launched a project entitled 'Students Engaging the CSME through Field Promotions' during a press conference in Barbados on Thursday 11 September 2008.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) SIXTY college and university students from three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Member States will be the initial beneficiaries of a project facilitated by the CARICOM Secretariat with the assistance of the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP).
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Fourteen CARICOM Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) returned to their respective territories on Tuesday, armed with the skills and information to better promote the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) to their peers and to encourage active participation.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Guyana President, His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo said the treatment meted out to some Caribbean nationals by immigration officers at some Caribbean ports of entry was posing a direct threat to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).