http://www.normangirvan.info Norman Girvan is Professorial Research Fellow at the UWI Graduate Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:04:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/rough-handling-federation-by-sir-shridath-ramphal/ 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. Download 'EPA Ratification Procedures' http://www.normangirvan.info/epa-ratification-procedures-in-acp-states-by-advocates-for-international-development/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/creating-a-caribbean-development-state-jay-r-mandle/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/substantially-all-trade-which-definitions-are-fulfilled-in-practicean-empirical-investigation/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/dealing-with-a-bad-deal-two-years-of-dr-cafta-in-central-america/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/havelock-brewster-biographical-information/ 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. http://www.normangirvan.info/havelock-brewsters-selected-publications/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/the-view-from-the-rear-view-mirror-havelock-brewster/ David de Caires--Witness to history and the search for a politics of meaning Stabroek News http://www.normangirvan.info/david-de-caires/ 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 ... http://www.normangirvan.info/an-encounter-with-haiti-reginald-dumas/