‘Rough Handling Federation’, by Sir Shridath Ramphal

Lecture at UWI Cave Hill Campus, November 20, 2008 
It is 50 years since the Federation was born; since The West Indies became, all too briefly, more than a geographic expression. However flawed the process by which we got there, however imperfect the consummation, however brief the period of promise, that moment of creation in 1958 [...]

EPA Ratification Procedures in ACP States, by Advocates for International Development

For each ACP country, this document summarises the ratification process including in particular whether competencies for entry into EPAs by the ACP countries lie at national level or regional level; and the process that must be followed in each case.
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Creating a Caribbean Development State, by Jay R Mandle

W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics, Colgate University

The debate over EPA was reminiscent of the kind of clash of ideas that occurred during the-hey day of the “New World” group of intellectuals and academics in the 1960s and 1970s. Then, as now, Caribbean integration and regional economic development were seen by these scholars as inseparable. [...]

‘Substantially All Trade’: Which Definitions are Fulfilled in Practice?An Empirical Investigation

Report for the Commonwealth Secretariat by Robert Scollay and Roman Grynberg, 2005.

GATT Article XXIV sets out a notoriously imprecise set of conditions under which free trade areas and customs unions are to be accepted as consistent with members’ obligations under the WTO Agreements. One of the most disputed elements is the phrase “substantially all trade” (SAT) [...]

Dealing With a Bad Deal: Two Years of DR-CAFTA in Central America

Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Washington D.C.
Critics argue that for over a decade, the United States has been striving to create commercial inroads into Latin America by way of bilateral free trade agreements that benefit U.S. economic interests to the detriment of those of Latin America. A recent example of this trend was the passage [...]

Havelock Brewster Biographical Information

Ambassador Havelock Brewster, CCH, LL.D (Hon., UWI)

Havelock R. Brewster, a national of Guyana and Jamaica, has spent most of his career in international institutions and government service. He was until recently Executive Director for the Caribbean at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC, and previously Guyana’s Ambassador to the European Union, Austria, Belgium, and [...]

Havelock Brewster’s Selected Publications

Havelock is the author or co-author of over two hundred refereed (*) and other articles, papers, monographs, chapters in books, attributed or institutional. Click here for a list of his selected publications.

The View from the Rear-View Mirror, Havelock Brewster

Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the Universirty of the West Indies, presents the Degree of Doctor of Laws , Honoris Causa to Ambassador Havelock Brewster at the UWI Mona  Campus on November 7, 2008. Following is Ambassador Brewster’s address to the Graduating Class.
Forty years ago, (the work of UWI social scientists) was greeted not [...]

If America can elect a Black president, why can’t Caricom nations agree to pool their sovereignty? Norman Girvan

The true meaning of the Obama victory is that we can dare to think the unthinkable, to dream the impossible. For the unthinkable can be within our grasp; and the impossible of today can become the reality of tomorrow. If America can elect a Black man as President, why can’t Caricom nations agree to pool [...]

David de Caires

David de Caires–Witness to history and the search for a politics of meaning Stabroek News