‘A partnership we could not refuse’, Ian MacDonald

From Stabroek News, Guyana, Sunday January 13, 2008
The Economic Partnership Agreement negotiated between the European Union and Cariforum came into force on January 1, 2008.1 have not, I confess, read all thousand pages of its main text, appendices, annexures and schedules. But I hope trade officials, finance officers and businessmen throughout the region do study [...]

EPA offers no escape from external competition, David Jessop

From The Sunday Gleaner, Kingston, January 13, 2008
In some quarters, there is a view that the eleventh-hour initialling of the EPA just before Christmas was in some way a great escape. That is to say, by avoiding the imposition of European tariffs where none existed before, the region had averted a political and economic crisis [...]

Statement from the Caribbean Cultural Industries Network on the Cariforum-EC EPA

The Caribbean Cultural Industries Network, an informal network of entertainment and culture industry professionals, is concerned about information filtering into the public domain regarding the status of entertainment practitioners and enterprises in the recently concluded EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement…
it would appear that this trade pact with the EU has proved to be a far [...]