**NEW**I have the honour this morning to extend greetings and welcome you to the CSME Sensitization Seminar geared towards Labour and Business Entrepreneurship. I must commend the CSME Secretariat, for proposing these region-wide seminars, as they provide a forum in which Trade Unions, Government Agencies and the Private Sector can interface and become more sensitized on the role and benefits of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
I am indeed delighted to participate in this forum hosted by the Ministry of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development (MLSMED) on the critical issue of Labour Administration in the context of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
I am indeed pleased to address you at this, the Semi Final and Final Rounds of the National Secondary Schools Quiz on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). This Quiz, today brings to me, many fond memories of the “Know Your Country” and “National Secondary Schools TRINTOC Oil” Quiz. While today the format of national quiz has undergone many pleasant changes, for me the spirit of competition and expectation is still as real and captivating as it was from my own school days.
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to my colleagues at the Employers’ Consultative Association (ECA) for the opportunity to speak on behalf of employers on the topic "the impact of Labour legislation on the Free Movement of People and how these are to be integrated". From the outset I would emphasise that Free Movement of People and the success of regional integration are inextricably bound and a most convenient starting point is to refer to the lecture delivered by the Right Honourable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, to the 15th.
I wish at the onset, to state that the hosting of this Seminar - “CSME: Complexities, Opportunities, Benefits and Challenges for Employers” is indeed timely and appropriate. This Seminar, which marks the launch of the ECA’s 2005 programme is taking place on the heels of the eighteen (18th) Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), which was held two (2) weeks ago in Georgetown, Guyana and at which, the CSME was the subject of much discussion and deliberation.
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