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Speech at the launch of the 2015 Human Development Report

I am delighted to welcome you to the launch of the 2015 Human Development Report. UNDP expresses its profound gratitude to Ethiopia for hosting this launch, and for His Excellency the Prime Minister’s presence here with us today to give the keynote speech and launch the report.

There can be no doubt that history will judge 2015 to be a remarkably important year for setting global development-related agendas.

In July, here in Addis Ababa, a new global agenda for financing development was agreed.

Finance, sustainable development, foreign policy matters expected to be among highlights at Inter-Sessional

The Region’s Ministers responsible for Community Affairs (Community Council of Ministers) met on Friday to review pressing matters to go before next month’s Inter-Sessional Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Belize.

Several finance, sustainable development and foreign policy issues received attention. Plans for a dialogue among Finance Ministers on the eve of the Inter-Sessional meeting were also discussed.

Opening Statement by the Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow,  Prime Minister of Belize At the Opening Ceremony For the Twenty-Seventh Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)

Opening Statement by the Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow,

Prime Minister of Belize

 

At the Opening Ceremony

 

For the  Twenty-Seventh  Inter-Sessional Meeting

of the Conference of Heads of Government

of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

February 15-17, 2016

CARICOM reform moving apace: SG

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat is proceeding apace with implementing the Community Strategic Plan 2015-2019, including the preparation of a Strategic Business Plan for the Secretariat, guided by the recently established Change Management Office.

This assurance was given to the Community Council of Ministers by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-General on Friday as he addressed the opening of the 37th meeting of the Community’s second highest organ, referred to as The Council.

The importance of competition during economic recession: CARICOM Competition Commission

“For 2016, drawing upon the work program which has already been approved by Member States, the CCC will continue to vigorously protect and maximise consumer welfare in the CARICOM region.  Accordingly, the CCC intends to make consumers the focus of its message to Governments and parliamentarians, sector regulators, the business community, and other special interest groups such as the judiciary, media, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).”

Labour, employers, government in Guyana commend CSME Free Movement regimes

Representatives of Guyana’s trade unions, employers and government are commending the Free Movement regimes within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) as important contributors to the region’s development.

The groups are part of a two day Free Movement sensitization workshop, which began Wednesday.

“It is about people and peoples’ development, which is central to the Region’s development”, said  General Secretary of the Guyana Trade Union Congress Mr. Lincoln Lewis as he addressed the Opening Ceremony.

The best years of CARICOM lie ahead: new Belizean Envoy

Newly accredited Ambassador of Belize to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), H.E. Daniel Gutierez has said the best years of the integration movement lie ahead for what he calls the “tremendous untapped potential” that lies within the Region.

Speaking at a ceremony to present his letters of credence to CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque,  at the CARICOM Secretariat Headquarters on Wednesday, Mr. Gutierez referenced his Prime Minister’s New Year Address in which he heralded 2016 as a landmark year for the integration movement.

CARICOM accredits new Belizean envoy as Ambassadors meet

As the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors meets in Georgetown, Guyana, Wednesday to engage on the Community Reform Process, CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque accepted the Letters of Credence from H.E. Daniel Gutierez, new Ambassador of Belize.

In a short accreditation ceremony held in his office, Ambassador LaRocque told the newest member of the Committee that he will have the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the integration movement by advancing the implementation of decisions of Organs of the Community at the national level.

CARICOM Free Movement Sensitization to target Employers and Employees

The CARICOM Secretariat is hosting a two-day sensitization workshop on Free Movement within the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) starting Wednesday, January 13, 2016 in Guyana. The aim is to share information and increase awareness of the free movement regimes. The target groups for this activity are the private sector, employers’ organizations and trade unions in CARICOM Member States where free movement processes are operational. Approximately thirty stakeholders are participating in the Guyana workshop that will be held at the Grand Coastal Hotel.

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