October 22, 2008

In a Joint Declaration adopted at the time of the signing of the Cariforum-EC EPA on October 15, 2008; a mandatory review of the Agreement is to be undertaken within five years. This note argues that the review will enable Cariforum to ‘put on the table’ any and all aspects of the EPA for reconsideration, including its contentious provisions. However, governments and civil society will need to make adequate preparation with data, analysis and lobbying if they are to take adavantage of the possibilties afforded by the mandatory review…

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Statement issued on the signing of the CARIFORUM-EC EPA on October 15, 2008

Despite the intransigence of the European Commission, and the failure of CARICOM partners to cooperate with Guyana in addressing the glaring shortcomings of the CARIFORUM- European Union Economic Partnership Agreement, the Government of Guyana has succeeded in getting two important improvements made to the Agreement, through a Declaration to be appended to it…

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The author, a retired public servant from Trinidad and Tobago, deals with his experiences over six months in 2004 as Special Adviser on Haiti to the UN Secretary General. Declaring himself to be ‘neither for or against Aristide or Latortue or any other individual’, he comes down ‘firmly on the side of Haitian people, objects always of domestic callouness in tandem with foreign interfence and ideological pontification…’

The book is ‘dedicated to the people of Haiti, whose suffering continues’. The devastation brought by storms this year jas been catastrophic, and part proceeds from sales will be used to set up a Haiti Relief Fund in Trinidad and Tobago.

‘An Encounter with Haiti’ is published by Medianet Limited, 6 Maraval Road, Port Of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; email publisher@medianetcaribbean.com, Tel. 868-622-5394. It will be launched on Thursday October 16, 2008 at 7 PM at the Normandie, 10 Nooks Ave., St Ann’s, Port of Spain.

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Keynote Address, Conference of the Economics Department, U.W.I., St. Augustine, in Honour of Dr Trevor Farrell , October 8, 2008

The thrust of my argument is that this economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s, represents a spectacular failure of Neo-Liberalism, and is therefore an occasion for its displacement by a new paradigm or, at least, its radical reconstruction…

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