Letter to the Stabroek News, Sunday February 10, 2008
Professor Clive Thomas, in the most recent of several articles (on the EPA) has again sought to disparage that accord and to claim that the region acted against its own interests. There are, however, many contentious planks in Prof. Thomas’ analysis that are based on an incorrect [...]
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From the Jamaica Observer, Sunday February 10, 2008)
Fierce disagreements and divisions have emerged within the Caribbean Community over the recently concluded negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU)….
Link to Rickey’s column
Also in the Trindad Express, February 11, 2008
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By calling its series ‘Fact vs. Fiction’, the CRNM is attempting to establish a false dichotomy and a self-serving characterisation of its own views vis-à-vis those of the critics. Indeed it is an excellent example of the use of language to convey certain subliminal messages…
Read ‘A False Dichotomy’
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The best arena for bringing pressure to bear on Caricom countries, to suspend the signing of the EPA in order to provide an opportunity for a full and public review of the Agreement and its possible implications for the region, is the national one….
Read Mervyn’s suggestions
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Haevlock Brewster’s letter to the Daily Gleaner on the charge of ‘mendicancy’ that the newspaper did not publish.
The Gleaner Editorial of today (February 4, 2007), as well as the statement it attributed to Prime Minister Golding, have absurdly caricatured regional and international critics of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Community. Mendicancy is not [...]
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Language locks us into problems and directs us to only certain solutions.
So I say this signing cannot be ‘for all time’. Debts are not paid and they
are written off, even the debts of countries. If a contract is produced
under duress without a party being adequately aware of the nature of the
contract, is it [...]
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The Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) has issued two recent bulletins that appear to be in response to criticisms of the Agreement and the calls for more information about it. The bulletins are available on the CRNM website, together with several statements of support for the EPA.
In response to the bulletin on agriculture, the [...]
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