MINISTER MITCHELL AT CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING

November 8, 2004 

Minister Fred Mitchell is leading a delegation this weekend to the Tenth Special Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Port of Spain, Trinidad.  The other members of the delegation are His Excellency A. Leonard Archer, High Commissioner to CARICOM and Mr. Philip Miller, Under Secretary for Trade and Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Much of the discussion at the two-day Conference, on November 8th and 9th, will focus on the formal institution of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), in 2005.

The Bahamas has not yet made a decision as to membership in the CSME