CARICOM AND CANADA TRADE MINISTERS MEET IN PORT OF SPAIN

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Trade Ministers will gather in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on Monday 10 March 2003 for a one-day meeting with their Canadian counterpart, the Hon. Pierre Pettigrew. Monday’s meeting at the Trinidad Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre comes just nine d...
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‘Re-Organised’ RNM seen as Model for Developing Countries

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Developing countries continue to express their interest in the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). Many developing countries that lack representation in Geneva and that face financial difficulties associated with individual country representation in negot...
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ADDRESS BY SENATOR THE HON. JULIAN R. HUNTE, OBE, MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CIVIL AVIATION, SAINT LUCIA, TO THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE ACP/EU JOINT MINISTERIAL TRADE COMMITTEE, 1 MARCH 2003, GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA

Co-presidents of the ACP-EU Joint Ministerial Trade Committee Hon. Prime Minister, Hon. Ministers, Delegates,  Invited guests,  Ladies and gentlemen. I wish to thank you all for being here today ;  I wish also, on behalf of the Government and people of St. Lucia,  to  e...
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HUNTE WARNS ON NEGOTIATIONS “WE MUST GET IT RIGHT”

If developing countries “get it wrong” in the current round of global and hemispheric trade negotiations then they could be faced with a steep decline in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This warning was delivered by Senator the Hon. Julian R. Hunte, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Int...
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CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE (CCJ) INAUGURATION THIS YEAR

Consultations on the establishment of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), and arrangements for the inauguration of the Court, which is scheduled for the latter half of 2003, is expected to commence soon.  This was a mandate coming out of ...
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Prime Minister Patterson Lauds RNM Work

CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS – Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica, lauded the RNM for “the tremendous work being done” in relation to the Region’s participation in WTO, FTAA and ACP/EU negotiations. He was reporting to the Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conf...
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FOURTEENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 14-15 FEBRUARY 2003, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

The 14th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 14-15 February 2003. It was presided over by immediate past Chairman, H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana...
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COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE FOURTEENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 14-15 FEBRUARY 2003, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

The 14th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on 14-15 February 2003. It was presided over by immediate past Chairman, H.E. Bharrat Jagdeo, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana...
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OPENING ADDRESS BY HON. PATRICK MANNING, PRIME MINISTER, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, AT THE FOURTEENTH INTER-SESSIONAL MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, 14-15 FEBRUARY 2003, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Mr. Chairman, Colleague Heads of Government, Honourable Ministers, Secretary-General, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Specially Invited Guests, Delegates, Members of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of the Government and People of the Republic of ...
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