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Having missed the opening ceremony of the second Caribbean Development Roundtable hosted at the Guyana International Conference Centre,Custom Wizards Jersey, Head of State Donald Ramotar is set to deliver the clarion call to the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), today.Head of State Donald RamotarBoth forums are being organized in part by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).Guyana’s Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, in his remarks to the CDR yesterday apologized on behalf of the President and assured that he will be present at today’s forum and will deliver the feature address.Among the other dignitaries slated for today’s opening ceremony are Patrick Eustace Simmons, Minister for Youth Empowerment and Sports,Grant Hill Magic Jersey, Government of Grenada; Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana; Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, Secretary General, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and Diane Quarless, Director of ECLAC‘s Sub-regional Headquarters for the Caribbean.The 24th CDCC which commences today is slated to address, inter alia,Karl Malone Team USA Jersey, a review of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM) for implementation of the outcomes of the Mauritius Strategy for the further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, review the implementation of the work programme for ECLAC, and address the matter of strengthening statistical capacities in the Caribbean.At the conclusion of the meeting a report on findings from the second phase of the evaluation of the role of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the Caribbean sub-region is expected to be generated and presented.The CDCC was created in 1975 as a permanent subsidiary body of ECLAC to promote the economic and social development of ECLAC Member and Associate Member States in the Caribbean.It meets at the ministerial level every two years with a meeting of the Monitoring Committee convened during the intervening year.The sessions are convened on dates that facilitate the transmission of relevant reports and decisions to the biennial sessions of ECLAC.The Member States are Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,NBA Store, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada,Penny Hardaway Magic Jersey, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica,James Harden Team USA Jersey, Saint Kitts and Nevis,Kevin Durant Team USA Jersey, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname,Kyle Lowry Team USA Jersey, and Trinidad and Tobago.The Associate members are Anguilla, Aruba,Vince Carter Raptors Jersey, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, and United States Virgin Islands. |
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