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Bouterse to miss CARICOM intercessional

Mar 09, 2014 News

CARICOM Heads of Government of the 14 Member States and two Associate Members will tomorrow gather in St Vincent and Grenadines for its 25th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads.
However, Suriname’s President, Desi Bouterse, who is the current President of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will instead be attending the inauguration of President Michelle Bachelet in Chile on Tuesday.
Suriname will only be represented at the Ministerial level at the CARICOM meeting.
The opening session of the meeting at Buccament Bay Resort will be addressed by CARICOM Chairman, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, immediate past Chair, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.
Major items for discussion at the two day meeting include Human Resource Development in the Community, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Development, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, and Climate Change.
As it relates to ICT, the deliberations in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will center‘ on the development of a Single Regional ICT space, resource mobilization, cyber security and crafting the CARICOM Digital Agenda for 2025.
As part of the holistic Regional ICT thrust, public private sector partnerships are paramount in considerations.
The Single Regional ICT Space is conceptualized as the digital layer of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
The CSME’s fundamental objective is to achieve a single economic space that will foster growth and will result in sustained development with consequent improvement in the standard of living of all Caribbean peoples.
As envisioned by its framers, the Single ICT Space encompasses the management of Regional information, human resources, legislation and infrastructure in the sector to elicit maximum benefit for the Region’s populace.
The Single ICT space and the Region’s Digital Agenda 2025 will be constructed on the foundation of the Regional Digital Development Strategy (RDDS) which was approved in 2013, and will also have inputs from the Commission on the Economy and the Post-2015 Agenda.
The Heads of Government will  also receive preliminary reports from a Commission on the Economy and a Transportation Commission, as well as the use of marijuana for medical purposes and on the issue of reparations and native genocide.
The Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) met on Saturday and had a first look at the report of the Commission on the Economy and forwarded its views to the Heads of Government.
Today the Prime Ministerial sub-committee on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will discuss the latest developments on its implementation.
President of the Regional Council of Martinique, Serge Letchimy, will meet with the Leaders, while the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu will hold discussions with the Community’s Foreign Ministers.

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