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ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO THE FORWARD TOGETHER CONFERENCE, 2-3 JULY 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

The Caribbean Development (CDB) applauds the Caribbean Community Secretariat and Civil Society for convening this Conference. I know that it required much effort and determination to bring it off. We are very pleased to have an opportunity to participate in what we confidently expect to be a set of most fruitful discussions about social partnership for Caribbean development.  

ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO THE FORWARD TOGETHER CONFERENCE, 2-3 JULY 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

The Caribbean Development (CDB) applauds the Caribbean Community Secretariat and Civil Society for convening this Conference. I know that it required much effort and determination to bring it off. We are very pleased to have an opportunity to participate in what we confidently expect to be a set of most fruitful discussions about social partnership for Caribbean development. 

Technological developments and the policies underpinning the current phase of the globalisation process are leading to a widening of several development gaps between the industrially advanced and poorer countries, in particular small countries. In our presentation at the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, we drew attention to five (5) critica

Mr Chairman
Your Excellency the Governor-General of St Kitts-Nevis,
Colleague Heads of Government
Ministers
Your Lordship The Chief Justice
Distinguished Members of the Diplomatic Corps
Ladies and Gentlemen.

We have taken 21 years to return to where we began. When we started we were anxious but ever fearless. However cautious we were of success, we never once doubted our quest: the importance and permanence of the OECS.

THE WIDENING DEVELOPMENT GAPS: HOW CAN CROSS-SECTORAL PARTNERSHIPS ASSIST SMALL CARICOM COUNTRIES MEET THE CHALLENGE :  PRESENTATION BY MR. EDWIN CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, TO WORLD BANK STAFF EXCHANGE PROGRAMME, 19 JUNE 2002, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Technological developments and the policies underpinning the current phase of the globalisation process are leading to a widening of several development gaps between the industrially advanced and poorer countries, in particular small countries.

We have taken 21 years to return to where we began. When we started we were anxious but ever fearless. However cautious we were of success, we never once doubted our quest: the importance and permanence of the OECS.  When future generations of the Caribbean look back across the passage of our regional development, I have no doubt that they will recognise the beginning of the OECS project as a trul

Honourable Ministers of Government
Excellencies
Members of Parliament and the Senate
Other Distinguished Guests
CARICOM Nationals
Ladies and Gentlemen

STATEMENT BY HON K.D. KNIGHT, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE OF JAMAICA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED)AT THE THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE COTED, 27-28 MAY 2002,  GEORGETOWN GUYANA

  Salutations.

It is again a great pleasure to be in Guyana, and particularly so during the celebration of the 36th anniversary of Independence.  On behalf of all of us I congratulate the Government and People of Guyana on this important national milestone, and further express sincere appreciation for the warm hospitality that has been extended to us.

Colleague Ministers, we meet at a critical juncture in Regional and global affairs.  Developments are taking place in the trade and economic arena that demand our most urgent and careful attention.

OPENING REMARKS BY EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED), 27-28 MAY 2002, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA

Mr. Chairman, Hon. K.D. Knight, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica
Outgoing Chairman, Hon. Clement Rohee, Minister of Foreign Trade and International Cooperation of Guyana
Hon Billie Miller Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados
Other Honourable Ministers
Ambassador Richard Bernal, Director-General of the Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM)
Distinguished Delegates
Members of Staff of the Secretariat
Members of the Media
Ladies and Gentlemen

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