Outcomes document

Statement by H.E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, CARICOM

Fostering a nexus between Africa and its diaspora - the case of the Caribbean : address delivered by Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

 

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Speeches:

• Address by Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Chairman of the Caribbean Community on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Address by the Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister, Barbados, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 25 March 2007, Holy Trinity Church, Hull, England

• Message delivered by H.E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, on the occasion of the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 25 March 2007 National Cultural Centre, Georgetown, Guyana

• Statement by Amb. Lolita Applewhaite, Deputy Secretary-General, Caribbean Community, on the occasion of the Special Ceremony to mark the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 25 March 2007, Georgetown, Guyana

• Speech by Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, at the UN Observance of the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 26 March  2007,  UN Headquarters, New York

• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery : the psychic inheritance / by Prof. Rex Nettleford at the UN Observance of the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 26 March  2007,  UN Headquarters, New York

• Welcome remarks by H.E. Edwin W. Carrington, Secretary-General, CARICOM, at the special lecture "Elisabeth Samson :the role and position of women in the Caribbean during slavery", on the occasion of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 27 March 2007, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana