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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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June 2008
In the late 1980’s into the 90’s, an extensive consultation was held, on what was referred to as the OECS Unity Initiative towards political integration of a number of Eastern Caribbean states… The Initiative died an unnoticed death…A similar fate befell the Report of the West Indian Commission, Time for action, prepared after extensive [...]
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The emergence of Venezuelan-promoted ALBA and Petrocaribe and their growing relations with several Caricom countries is a significant recent development in regional affairs; with Petrocaribe now the largest source of concessional lending to Caribbean oil-importing countries. This paper examines the trade, financial and social cooperation programmes of ALBA and concludes that participation in ALBA is [...]
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Third Distinguished Lecture in a series in honour of Sir Arthur Lewis, the English-speaking Caribbean’s first Nobel Laureate. Vaughan Lewis is Professor at the UWI Institute of International Relations, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Arthur Lewis can be said to have been a child of the integration movement…His very early writings all sought to deal with the [...]
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Text of the speech by Prime Minister David Thompson of Barbados to the Trinidad ana Tobago Manufacturer’s Association, April 16, 2008.
While both sides assess the results of three and a half years of earnest negotiations, opinions abound on the impact of the EPA on our economies, and the future of CSME in particular…
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Lecture delivered at Public Forum on the Post Colonial Ecnomy and Society, Kingstown, St Vincent anf the Grenadines, February 12, 2008.
The basis of colonial economy and society was the disempowerment of the majority of the population. Accordingly, the basis of the post colonial economy and society must be the self-empowerment of the population by meams [...]
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Overview of resources on Caribbean integration and the CSME for teachers, researchers, journalists, businesspeople and others who want to say current on Caricom. Comments and suggestions are especially welcome.
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