SPEECH DELIVERED BY HON. DR. DENZIL L. DOUGLAS, PRIME MINISTER OF ST. KITTS & NEVIS, AT THE OCEAN TERRACE INN ON THE OCCASION OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (COFCOR) Thursday May 13, 1999.

Your Excellency, Dr. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor General, Your Honour Mr. Eustace John and Mrs.John, Members of Cabinet, Honourable Secretary General, Mr. Edwin Carrington, Distinguished Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community and Heads of Delegations, Mr. Speaker, Hon. Walford Gumbs ...
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MITCHELL APPEALS FOR SENSE OF URGENCY ON BANANA ISSUE

Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Rt Hon Sir James Mitchell will urge his colleague Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) "to act soon to finalise proposals" to put forward to the European Union (EU) in respect of the changes to the EU's Banana Regime following ...
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CONSENSUS BUILDING ON CSM&E TO START IN THREE MEMBER STATE

A wide range of issues relating to the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSM&E) will come under the microscope in at least three Member States of the Caribbean Community in May. In a series of consensus building exercises, officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) S...
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US AND CARIBBEAN TRADE LINKAGES : FOSTERING PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY : SPEECH BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AT THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL ENTREPRENEURS OF THE YEAR GALA ORGANISED BY THE CARIBBEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, 22 APRIL 1999

I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation to the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) for the honour of having selected me as its 1999 "Caribbean Roving Ambassador". This has confirmed what my wife has long thought of my perpetual travelling. On a more serious note, ...
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CARICOM TEAM TOURS CHILE FOOD INDUSTRIES

A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat representative is a among a 19-member party of officials from the private and public sectors in Member States and technical support agencies who are making a study tour of Chile's agribusiness sector, during this week. The eight-day mission will focu...
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CARICOM LEADERS TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING

A Special Meeting of the Conference Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community is being organised to take place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Friday, 16 April. This Sixth Special Meeting is being convened to deal with urgent matters of Community interest such as the latest World Trade ...
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CARICOM: Toward Making the Caribbean Whole - By Edwin W. Carrington, Condensed version of the keynote address delivered to the 7th Annual North-East regional Caribbean Students Conference,  at MIT, on April 2, 1999

Introduction As Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community I wish to express my appreciation to the North East regional Caribbean Students Conference for inviting me to deliver the keynote address at the last such Conference of this Century. I consider it not only an honour but my duty to be here....
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