SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – 30th January, 2015…….Prime Minister the Honourable Gaston Browne rounded off a series of bilateral meetings at the Third CELAC Summit in Costa Rica on Thursday with a bilateral encounter with President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela.
Prime Minister Browne characterized the meeting as one that was very important to the energy future of Antigua and Barbuda, as well as to Antigua’s economic development.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has urged member countries and governments of the Community of Latin American States and Caribbean States (CELAC) to continue to give focused attention to meaningful cooperation that can significantly reduce poverty in their respective countries through expanded production, trade, investments and job creation.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Competition Commission has concluded that the agreement by Cable and Wireless Communications Plc (CWC) to acquire Columbus International Inc. (Columbus) has the potential to prejudice trade and prevent, restrict or distort competition within the CARICOM Single market and Economy (CSME), with the possibility of cross-border effects.
Fight against hunger and poverty on the table at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit 27 January 2015, San José, Costa Rica - Today FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presented a new regional Plan for Food Security, Nutrition and Hunger Eradication by 2025 during a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) taking place here.
The Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and Chairman of theCaribbean Community (CARICOM) on Wednesday focused on human development, migration and poverty as he addressed the opening ceremony of the CELAC Summit underway in San Jose, Costa Rica.
The Summit is being held under the theme `Building Together’.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – 29th January 2015……Heads of States and Governments attending the Third Summit of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean states have been urged to call on the United States Congress to lift the economic blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States government.
Speaking at the Opening of the session on Wednesday, Prime Minister Browne outlined that his country welcomes the decision of the governments of Cuba and the United States of America to establish diplomatic relations.
SAN JOSE – Costa Rica – 29th January 2015…..Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda the Hon. Gaston Browne, who is attending the Third Summit of CELAC Heads of State and Government in Costa Rica has commended President Luis Guillermo Solis for his leadership of the organisation and calls for nations to further strengthen relations.
Speaking at the opening of the two-day summit of the community of Latin American and Caribbean states, Prime Minister Browne praised Costa Rica for the relationship developed between the grouping and the People’s Republic of China.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, urged the countries of the region to further integrate and to expand their domestic markets to restore the economic growth of the past decade, in his speech today at the opening ceremony of the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Costa Rica.
CASTRIES, St Lucia, Jan 27, CMC – Caribbean climate change negotiators are meeting here in preparation for global talks on the environment in Paris later this year.
The talks are a follow-up to the 20th Conference of Parties (CoP) held in Peru last December.
“The crucial Paris meeting should see the adoption of a new global agreement for reducing climate change under the convention,” said Crispin D’Auvergne, Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer here.