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 His Excellency, the Governor General, Sir Carlyle Glean; Permanent Secretary, Mrs. Veda Bruno-Victor; Coordinator of Youth; Mr. Kevin Andall; Coordinator of Youth Service & Leadership; Ms. Jacqueline Alexis; Chairperson, Ms. Nisha Mc Intyre; Other staff of the Ministry of Youth Empowerment & Sports; Members of the various youth organizations and clubs; Distinguished guests; visitors from various Commonwealth Nations; principals, teachers, parents, students Cultural Performers; everyone present here today.
A pleasant afternoon to you and a special thank you for being part of today’s Commonwealth Celebrations. Welcome.
While the Commonwealth exists to serve everyone in every member state, the Commonwealth has placed specific emphasis on youth development. I am happy to see so many young faces today. For this reason, my remarks will focus heavily on the youth and their relationship with the Commonwealth.
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
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The Haitian earthquake is being discussed world-wide. Most people know about the acute poverty in Haiti but not many people know its history. The attached publication gives an insight into why Haiti has not been able to emerge from the depths of poverty and be part of this modern world. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti.
I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption. |
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Secretary-General calls for progress on Contingent Rights |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) H.E. Edwin Carrington Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has underscored the need to make significant progress in the area of Contingent Rights in the face of hindrances to the establishment of a Protocol on those rights.
In a brief statement read by Ambassador. Lolita Applewhaite, CARICOM Deputy Secretary-General, at the opening of the third Meeting of officials on Contingent Rights at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, the Secretary-General pointed to capacity and resource constraints that some Member States had indicated would prevent them from providing full access to social services. Those constraints, he pointed out, have proven to be “a major hindrance” in advancing the work that needed to be done on the development of the Protocol. |
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CARICOM HEIGHTENS ITS RESPONSE TO HAITIAN CRISIS |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) moved its assistance to its earthquake devastated Member State, Haiti to another level with the deployment of a Tactical Mission to that country on Sunday, 17 January.
On Wednesday, 13 January, less than 24 hours after the earthquake struck on 12 January, Jamaica had deployed medical personnel and security forces to Haiti as a first response. Jamaica is the sub-regional focal point in the area that includes Haiti, The Bahamas and the nearby Associate Members under the system established by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) the regional response mechanism to natural disasters. |
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Special CARICOM Summit on Youth Development |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
“We want to see action,” Youth Commissioners declare
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) With less than two weeks ahead of the Special Summit of CARICOM Heads of Government on Youth Development – the first of its kind since the Community’s inception – members of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development say they are looking for all Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community to attend and to commit to “tangible action,” beyond the two day summit, slated for Suriname on 29-30 January. |
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