From Stabroek News, 24/02/08
“For much of the last week I have been speaking to smaller Caribbean companies about the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe….To a man and woman they were perplexed and unsure what the EPA might mean for their businesses. …the public debate had begun to alarm them because they were unable to [...]
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From the Jamaica Gleaner, 22/02/08
For a number of years in the late 1990s, rice producers in Guyana and Suriname were lobbying in Europe to try to achieve language in the Cotonou Convention that would ensure greater access for exports of Caribbean rice to the European Union (EU)…
Go to article in the Jamaica Gleaner
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From Dgroups: Development Through Dialogue, (22/01/08)
This agreement has not yet been notified to the WTO, despite the fact that EU preferences are being granted under the EPA Regulation. And yet the WTO Transparency Decision provides that such preferences may only be granted once an agreement is notified to the WTO. Clearly, this is not in [...]
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From Business Guardian, February 21, 2008
It was the former Dominica prime minister, the late Dame Eugenia Charles, who, when asked to comment on the political situation in Haiti during the reign of the Duvalier regime, noted “Bad elections are better than no elections at all.” …
Link to EPA: Unifying or Divisive?
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From Business Guardian, Febuary 21, 2008
LAST MONTH, a call was made, in effect, for a delay in the signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) by Caricom governments and the Dominican Republic (collectively called Cariforum) with the European Union…
Link to ‘EPA Madness‘
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PARIS, Jan 26 (IPS) - While the real impact of the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) on the economies of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries will be ‘‘small’’, the pace of negotiations and of the liberalisation of their markets is too fast and will damage their economies, according to numerous French economists and development experts…
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Press Release from Caribbean Banana Exporters Association, February 12, 2008
“Grave concerns were expressed that, despite prior assurances, the EU now appears willing to dilute or nullify the benefits of the agreements even before they are formally signed and ratified…”
Read Press Release CBEA
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I may be wrong but I suspect, dear Reader, that most of you do not have a clue as to what the title of my column means. [...]
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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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