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CARICOM summit opens today

Thursday, 02 July 2009

The 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be declared open today at the National Cultural Centre against the backdrop of the 20th anniversary of the Grand Anse Declaration and Work Programme for the Advancement of the Integration Movement. The Grand Anse Declaration was signed in July 1989, in Grand Anse, Grenada.
At least 14 Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) including two from the Associate Members are expected in Georgetown, Guyana, for the Summit, which will be formally opened this afternoon.
President Bharrat Jagdeo is hosting the meeting; lead Head of Government with responsibility for Agriculture, who assumed the Chairmanship of the Community yesterday July 2009. The outgoing Chairman is Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize.
Both President Jagdeo and Prime Minister Barrow will address the opening ceremony, as will Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Tillman Thomas, Prime Minister of Grenada and Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of CARICOM.
The opening ceremony will also feature the presentation of the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC), the Community’s highest award, to Percival Patterson, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
Prior to the ceremonial opening ceremony, the Heads will meet in caucus at the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC).
Business sessions of the meeting will be held from July 3, also at the GICC. Those sessions will be devoted to discussions on four clusters of items: Economic Development, Human and Social Development; Strengthening the Community; and Strengthening Alliances/Forging New Relations.
With regard to Economic Development, the Heads of Government will focus on the Regional impact of, and response to the global economic and financial crisis; developments related to the Tourism Sector; Developments related to Agriculture and Food Security; and matters related to Services.
They will also consider the Regional Strategy for Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D); the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME); the free movement of persons and impediments to regional trade in goods.
The issues and recommendations emanating from the Twentieth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial sub-committee on External Trade Negotiations, which was held at the CARICOM Secretariat yesterday, will also engage the attention of the Heads of Government in the Economic Development cluster of items.
In the Human Development cluster, the issues on which the Heads of Government will deliberate include Realising the Nassau Declaration: The Health of the Region is the Wealth of the Region; the proposal for a special summit on Youth as well as crime and security.

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