The Rose Hall Declaration on Regional Governance and Integrated Development

• Author: Kenneth Hall/Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
• Pages: 39-45

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The Rose Hall Declaration

We, the Heads of Government of the member countries of the Caribbean

Community, meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, under the chairmanship of

the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable Percival J. Patterson,

on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of

Chaguaramas on 4 July 1973:

RECALLING the commitments signified in the Preamble and Articles

of that Treaty establishing the Caribbean Community;

RECOGNISING the many steps we have taken in furtherance of the

vision and agreements of the founding signatories in 1973; and of

the further targets we set ourselves in the Nassau Understanding

(1984), the Grand Anse Declaration (1989), the Bridgetown

Declaration of Principles (1997), the Montego Bay Declaration (1997),

the Nassau Declaration on Health (2001) and the Revised Treaty of

Chaguaramas (2001);

BEARING IN MIND our consultations on Options for Governance to

Deepen the Integration Process held in Port-of-Spain in February

2003, and the report of the Expert Group of Heads of Government

appointed pursuant to that consultation entitled Regional Integration:

Carrying the Process Forward;

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the document entitled CARICOM Beyond

Thirty: Charting New Directions submitted to the Meeting by the

Chairman;

MINDFUL of the areas in which we have not yet achieved all the goals

agreed for the integration of our economies and the betterment of

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5Adopted on the Occasion of the Thirtieth

Anniversary of the Caribbean Community

(CARICOM) at the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the

Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM,

2-5 July 2003, Montego Bay, Jamaica

THE ROSE HALL DECLARATION ON

‘REGIONAL GOVERNANCE AND

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT’