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 [...]

Food Security and the EPA

From Stabroek News, 2/06/08
The extraordinary rise in food prices over the last couple of years has given a new prominence and urgency to this problem in the Caribbean, where as Tony Weis pointed out in a recent Diaspora column, “food security is so utterly wedded to global markets and heretofore cheap breadbasket imports”…The EPA provisions [...]

Understanding Development Challenges in the Caribbean (’Time to Take in the Begging Bowl’)

Prepared for an OAS/ World Bank Forum for Parliamentarians on ‘Shaping A Trade Agenda To Promote Regional Integration And Competitiveness For CARICOM,
St. Lucia, May 17, 2007. Correspondence to hrbrewster@aol.com.
Copyright Havelock Brewster 2007
 
I want to take the issue of development challenges onto a different dimension- one that could be of interest to politicians… Some of my [...]

Mature Regionalism and the Rose Hall Declaration

Delivered at the CARICOM 30th Anniversary Conference on Regional Governance and Integrated Development, University of the
West Indies, Mona Campus, October 2003.Copyright Havelock Brewster 2003
The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) was adopted fourteen years ago but very little has actually been implemented.  The core of the problem resides in the fact that the Treaty of [...]

Review of the Rose Hall Declaration on Regional Governance

The Rose Hall Declaration on Mature Regionalism and Regional Governance, adopted by the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference of July 2003, was meant to adress the problem of Caricom’s ‘implementation deficit’. This review critically assesses the provisions of the Declaration…[...]
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Implementation of the CSME

Prepared by Havelock Brewster, Tom Dolan and Taimoon Stewart for the World Bank, 2002
Covers issues related to the implementation of the CSME as it moves from Single Market to Single Economy, including the issue of national sovereignty, priorities, progress of the CSME and asssessment of needs.
Copyright the authors and the World Bank, 2002
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