(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.
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It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Guyana on the occasion of the 32nd Special meeting of the Agriculture COTED. I am saddened to learn that this may very well be the final Agricultural COTED for 2009, and indeed for quite some time. I am saddened because there seems to be so much that remains to be done in Agriculture in our part of the world.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirty-Second Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture opens on Friday 18 September, 2009 at the Le Meridien Pegasus, Georgetown, Guyana.
COTED Officials began their meeting from Wednesday September 16, 2009 at the same location.
Mr. Chairman
Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations
Secretary-General and Staff
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the media
Ladies and Gentlemen
I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage of the next few days to further enjoy our country.
Mr. Chairman
Colleague Ministers and Heads of Delegations
Secretary-General and Staff
Distinguished Delegates
Members of the media
Ladies and Gentlemen
I welcome you to this Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED).
To those of you who have been in Guyana since last week, I hope you had a good weekend and will also take advantage of the next few days to further enjoy our country.
(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.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will be held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 18 September 2008, to discuss Tourism and Transportation/Civil Aviation.
(CARICOM Secretariat Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) THE Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) last week approved the suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on three categories of items in an effort to provide relief from the rising costs of commodities region-wide.
[Salutations]
It is customary on occasions like these for us to remind ourselves of the times in which we are gathered. This 27th Special Meeting of COTED is being opened here this morning against the background of a global food crisis, precipitated by spiralling commodity prices worldwide, and characterized by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, as a “ Silent Tsunami”.
Ladies and Gentlemen_
A warm welcome to my colleague Ministers of Agriculture and officials here for the 27th Special Ministerial Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development. I hope that your stay in Guyana will be enjoyable, but more importantly that our deliberations will be successful.