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PRELIMINARY CALENDAR

OF

COMMUNITY MEETINGS

AND

MEETINGS OF INTEREST

TO THE

THE COMMUNITY

FOR

January-December 2020

24 January 2020

JANUARY 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|1st |New Year’s Day |All Member States (except Haiti) and |

| | |Associate Member States |

|1st |Independence Day |Haiti |

|OBSERVANCES |

|4th |World Braille Day |

|18th |International Religion Day |

|23rd |International Freedom Day |

|26th |International Fisherman Day |

| |International Environmental Education Day |

| |International Customs Day |

|27th |International Holocaust Remembrance Day |

|28th |International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day |

|30th |International Nonviolence and Peace Day |

|31st |Street Children’s Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

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|24 |Eleventh Meeting of the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors |Guyana |

|27-28 |Eighty-Third Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development |Guyana |

| |(COTED)-Services-Officials | |

|28 |First Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the PANCAP-CVC-COIN Global |Guyana |

| |Fund Multi-country Grant | |

|29 |Twenty-First Regular Meeting of the Council for National Security and Law |Guyana |

| |Enforcement (CONSLE) | |

|31 |Eighty-Third Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development |Guyana |

| |(COTED)-Services-Ministerial | |

|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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|17 |Eleventh Meeting of the CARICOM Committee of Ambassadors |Trinidad and Tobago |

FEBRUARY 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|22nd |Independence Day |Saint Lucia |

|23rd |Republic Day/Mashramani |Guyana |

|24th |Carnival Monday |Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago |

|25th |Carnival Tuesday |Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago |

|25th |Carnival/Shrove Tuesday |Haiti |

|26th |Ash Wednesday |Jamaica |

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|OBSERVANCES[1] |

|4th |World Cancer Day |

|13th |World Radio Day [UNESCO] |

|20th |World Day of Social Justice |

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|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|3 |CARICOM Technical Working Group in preparation for engagement with the Dominican | Guyana |

| |Republic in the Extraordinary Meeting of the Joint Council established under the Free| |

| |Trade Area between CARICOM and the Dominican Republic | |

|17 |Eleventh Special Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers |Barbados |

|18-19 |Thirty-First Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government |Barbados |

|TBA |Third Meeting of the CARICOM-Chile Joint Commission |Barbados (TBC) |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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MARCH 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|2nd |James Ronald Webster Day |Anguilla |

|7th |H. Lavity Stoutt Birthday |British Virgin Islands |

|9th |National Heroes and |Belize |

| |Benefactors Day | |

|9th |Commonwealth Day |British Virgin Islands |

|10th |Holi Phagwa |Guyana, Suriname (*) |

|10th |Commonwealth Day |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|14th |National Heroes’ Day |St. Vincent and the Grenadines|

|17th |St. Patrick’s Day |Montserrat |

|30th |Spiritual Baptist (Shouter) |Trinidad and Tobago |

| |Liberation Day | |

|OBSERVANCES |

|8th |International Women’s Day |

|21st |International Day for the Elimination of Racial |

| |Discrimination |

|21st |World Poetry Day |

|22nd |World Water Day |

|23rd |World Meteorological Day |

|25th |International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery |

| |and the Transatlantic Slave Trade |

|25th |Observance of National Genocide Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|10 |Nineteenth CARICOM-Japan Consultation | Guyana |

|11 |Fifth CARICOM-Mexico Summit |Mexico City, Mexico |

|13 |CARICOM Technical Working Group in preparation for engagement with the Dominican | Guyana |

| |Republic in the Extraordinary Meeting of the Joint Council established under the Free| |

| |Trade Area between CARICOM and the Dominican Republic | |

|17-18 |CARIFORUM Preparatory and Third Meeting of the Task Force on the 2020 Review of the | Guyana |

| |CARIFORUM-EU EPA | |

|17-20 |Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development | Guyana |

|24-26 |Forty-Eighth Joint Meeting of the Executive and Education Committees and the | Guyana |

| |Seventeenth Meeting of the Practice Committee of the Regional Nursing Body (RNB) | |

|First Qtr-TBA |First Meeting of the CARICOM-Colombia Joint Commission |TBA |

|TBA |Meeting of the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) |Guyana |

|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

|24 |4th Cooperation Meeting of the ACS |Barbados |

|25 |Preparatory Meeting of the 25th Ordinary Meeting of the ACS Ministerial Council |Barbados |

|26 |25th Ordinary Meeting of the ACS Ministerial Council |Barbados |

APRIL 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|11th |Holy Saturday |Belize |

|12th |Easter Sunday |Suriname |

|13th |Easter Monday |All Member States (except |

| | |Bermuda) and Associate |

| | |States |

|28th |National Heroes Day |Barbados |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|7th |World Health Day |

|22nd |International Mother Earth Day |

|24th |Girls in ICT Day |

|25th |World Malaria Day |

|26th |World Intellectual Property Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|2-3 |Fiftieth Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) - |Guyana |

| |Officials | |

|16-17 |Meeting of Officials Preparatory to the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Council for |Guyana |

| |Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) | |

|15-16 |CARIFORUM Preparatory and Fourth Meeting of the Task Force on the 2020 Review of the | Guyana |

| |CARIFORUM-EU EPA | |

|23-24 |Fiftieth Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) - |Guyana |

| |Ministerial | |

|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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|7-8 |Tenth UK-Caribbean Forum |London, UK |

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MAY 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|1st |Agriculture & Labour Day |Haiti |

|1st |National Workers’ Day |St. Vincent and the Grenadines |

|4th |Labour Day |Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica |

|5th |Arrival Day |Guyana |

|15th |Discovery Day |Cayman Islands |

|18th |Flag and University Day |Haiti |

|23rd |Labour Day |Jamaica |

|24th |Eid-ul-Fitr |Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago (*) |

|24th |Sovereign’s Day/ |Belize |

| |Commonwealth Day | |

|24th |Bermuda Day |Bermuda |

|26th |Independence Day |Guyana |

|29th |National Heroes’ Day |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|30th |Indian Arrival Day |Trinidad and Tobago |

|30th |Anguilla Day |Anguilla |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|3rd |World Press Freedom Day |

|12th |International Nurses Day |

|17th |World Telecommunication and Information Society Day |

|18th |World AIDS Vaccine Day |

|31st |World No Tobacco Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|15 |28th Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) |Guyana |

|7-8 |Twenty-Third Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) |Haiti |

|TBA |Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) - Education |Guyana |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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JUNE 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|5th |Randol Fawkes Labour Day |The Bahamas |

|11th |Corpus Christi |Grenada, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and |

| | |Tobago |

|13th |Sovereign’s Birthday |British Virgin Islands |

|13th |Queen’s Birthday |Montserrat |

|15th |Queen’s Official Birthday |Anguilla |

|15th |Queen’s Birthday |Cayman Islands |

|15th |National Heroes’ Day |Bermuda |

|19th |Labour Day |Trinidad and Tobago |

|19th |Her Majesty the Queen’s Official |Turks and Caicos islands |

| |Birthday | |

| |

|OBSERVANCES |

|5th |World Environment Day |

|6th |World Pest Day |

|8th |World Oceans Day |

|12th |World Day against Child Labour |

|14th |World Blood Donor Day |

|15th |World Elder Abuse Awareness Day |

|26th |International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

|June |50th OAS General Assembly |The Bahamas |

|Week of 22 June |Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting |Rwanda |

JULY 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|1st |Territory Day |British Virgin Islands |

|3rd |Constitution Day |Cayman Islands |

|6th |CARICOM Day |Guyana |

|6th |Carnival Monday |St. Vincent and the Grenadines |

|7th |Carnival Tuesday |St. Vincent and the Grenadines |

|10th |Independence Day |The Bahamas |

|30th |Emancipation Day |Bermuda |

|31st |Somers’ Day |Bermuda |

|31st |Eid-ul-Azha |Guyana, Suriname (*) |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|11th |World Population Day |

|17th |World Day for International Justice |

|18th |Nelson Mandela International Day |

|26th |International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem |

|30th |World Day Against Trafficking in Persons |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|TBA |Forty-First Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean |St. Vincent and the Grenadines |

| |Community | |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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AUGUST 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|3rd |Emancipation Day |The Bahamas, Montserrat |

|3rd |August Monday |Dominica |

|3rd |Carnival Monday |Grenada |

|3rd |J’Ouvert Morning |Antigua and Barbuda |

|3rd |Independence Day |Jamaica |

|3rd |Kadooment Day |Barbados |

|3rd |August Monday |Anguilla |

|3rd |Festival Monday |British Virgin Islands |

|4th |Last Lap |Antigua and Barbuda |

|4th |Carnival Tuesday |Grenada |

|4th |Festival Tuesday |British Virgin Islands |

|5th |Festival Wednesday |British Virgin Islands |

|5th |Emancipation Day |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|6th |August Thursday |Anguilla |

|9th |Day of the Indigenous People |Suriname |

| |(Dag der Inheemsen) | |

|19th |Constitution Day |Anguilla |

|31st |Independence Day |Trinidad and Tobago |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|9th |International Day of the World’s Indigenous People |

|12th |International Youth Day |

|19th |World Humanitarian Day |

|23rd |International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition|

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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SEPTEMBER 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|10th |St. George's Caye Day |Belize |

|16th |National Heroes Day |St. Kitts and Nevis |

|19th |Independence Day |St. Kitts and Nevis |

|21st |Independence Day |Belize |

|22nd |National Youth Day |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|24th |Republic Day |Trinidad and Tobago |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|8th |International Literacy Day |

|16th |International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer |

|25th |World Maritime Day |

|27th |World Tourism Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|TBA |Thirteenth Special Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations |New York |

|TBA |Second CARICOM-India Joint Commission |Guyana |

|TBA |Follow-Up Meeting to the 10th CARICOM-UN General Assembly (VC) |Guyana |

|TBA |Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) - Transportation|Guyana |

|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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OCTOBER 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|9th |National Heritage Day |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|12th |National Heroes Day |The Bahamas |

|12th |Pan American Day |Belize |

|17th |Anniversary of the Death of |Haiti |

| |Dessalines | |

|19th |National Heroes Day |Jamaica |

|21st |St. Ursula‘s Day |British Virgin Islands |

|25th |Thanksgiving Day |Grenada |

|27th |Independence Day |St. Vincent and the Grenadines |

|29th |Youman Nabi |Guyana (*) |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|5th |World Habitat Day |

|5th |World Teachers’ Day |

|17th |International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |

|20th |World Statistics Day |

|24th |United Nations Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

|8-15 |Caribbean Statistics Day Activities |Guyana |

|TBA |Fifty-First Regular Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED)|Guyana |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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NOVEMBER 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|1st |Independence Day |Antigua and Barbuda |

|3rd |Independence Day |Dominica |

|4th |Community Day of Service |Dominica |

|11th |Remembrance Day |Bermuda, Cayman Islands |

|18th |Battle of Vertieres Day |Haiti |

|19th |Garifuna Settlement Day |Belize |

|24th |National Day of Thanksgiving |Turks and Caicos Islands |

|23rd |Liberation Day |Montserrat |

|25th |Independence Day |Suriname |

| |(Onafhankelijkheidsdag) | |

|30th |Independence Day |Barbados |

|OBSERVANCES |

|20th |Universal Children’s Day |

|25th |International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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DECEMBER 2020

NATIONAL DAYS

|S |M |T |

|13th |National Day |Saint Lucia |

|19th |National Heroes and |Anguilla |

| |Heroines Day | |

|25th |Christmas Day |All Member States and Associate Member States |

|26th |Boxing Day |All Member States (except Haiti) and Associate |

| | |Member States |

|31st |Festival Day |Montserrat |

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|OBSERVANCES |

|1st |World Aids Day |

|2nd |International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |

|3rd |International Day of Persons with Disabilities |

|10th |Human Rights Day |

|DATE |COMMUNITY MEETINGS |HOST |

| | |COUNTRY |

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|MEETINGS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMUNITY |

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Updated 28 January 2020-DVA

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[1] Some dates for Observances in Member States and Associate States, may vary.

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