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Following a successful historic meeting of Heads of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Institutions in 2007,Green Bay Packers Jersey, the CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency Edwin Carrington will again facilitate a second meeting of these institutions over two days from July 30 at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen.Thirty-one regional institutions have been invited to the meeting which will build on the initial attempt at harmonising the work of institutions in the Community to ensure a more efficient and effective use of available resources.It is also envisaged that such harmonisation would galvanize efforts in the implementation of CARICOM Heads of Government decisions. This is in keeping with the Declaration of Needham’s Point: A Community for All,John Stallworth Steelers Jersey, by Heads of Government at the Twenty-Eighth Regular Meeting in Barbados,Kevin Greene Steelers Jersey, July 2007.It was against this background that the first Meeting,Kevin Faulk Patriots Jersey, which was attended by twenty-two Heads of Regional Institutions and described as a tremendous success,Dermontti Dawson Steelers Jersey, was held and resulted in a frank exchange of views on the broad vision for the development of the Community and on the contribution that those Institutions could make towards achieving that vision. So productive was the 2007 inaugural meeting that a decision was made to institutionalise such meetings on a biennial basis. However, in an effort to maintain momentum,LaDarius Gunter Packers Jersey, it was also agreed to hold a second meeting in 2008 to follow-up on actions emanating from the first meeting.A number of sectoral clusters including Agriculture, Air Transportation,Jack Butler Steelers Jersey, Climate Change,Tedy Bruschi Patriots Jersey, Security and Water Management were also established at that inaugural meeting and the Institutions involved in those clusters will meet on 28-29 July with a view to coordinating their activities,Mel Blount Steelers Jersey, thereby developing synergies, maximising their efforts and avoiding duplication of resources. |
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