Industrial Development, Trade and Transportation
Chair:
Chantal Esdelle
Rapporteur:
Nzinga Job
Traductor:
Chanzo Greenidge
Report
adopted by John Lonkc
Seconded
by Egla Mondison
Members
11 from Martinique, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbaados.
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Transport within the
Caribbean in particular the cost and the control of it by transnational
entities.(this affects trade)
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Electricity (we need power
to produce)
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Imbalance between imports
and exports (we import more than we export)
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Lack of a working
knowledge of the workings of trade within the group
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Consideration of the
efficiency of air and transport travel
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Should we have a regional
body that coordinates this?
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Should we engage private
entities or should this be a consideration of the state?
- Tax; CSME and the WTO effect on
rescinding many of the tariffs we had on goods from outside of our region
- The question of standards/double
standards. It seems that things are set
up for us not to meet international standards.
- The cost of our labour. Trade unions have battled for us to have
better wages but this has affected the competiveness of our goods even within
the region. How do we even this out?
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Create a database of
traders including farmers for the entire Caribbean (deals with the question of
the imbalance between imports and exports)
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Create an inter-island
ferry service by soliciting assistance from gov’t private companies and others
to insist on its creation and maintenance. (Water surrounds us we should think
about how to figure out navigating it).
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Protect existing marine
transport.
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Lobby the governments of
the Caribbean to increase their subsidies of transportation industries and link
with other states to create unified Caribbean owned transport entities.
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Create events that
increase tourism (actually had a couple examples)
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Assign an inter Caribbean
communications team from the ACP to make Caribbean events made known around the
region to facilitate inter regional movement and increase consumption. This group can also assist in the translation
of local/regional airline websites.
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Lobby for the
establishment of a Caribbean energy authority to assess, make an inventory, and
provide a strategy for regional energy resource management. (we had identified
that we have the potential and, in some cases information to develop, solar,
wind, hydro, and wave energy and figure out distribution from energy rich
territories like Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico. (Barbados help with
solar, Guyana hydro, University based regional research and design).
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Support existing energy
development movements (hydro in Guyana)
These are intense projects for which many
members of the group need more info about to engage in properly so we now have
a list of the members who are interested in continuing as a working group.
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Working group volunteers |
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Erecia Harry |
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John Locke |
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Emmanuel Peria |
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Nicol Evelyne |
same as above |
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Pedro Franco |
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Priya Ganness Nanton |
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Chanzo Greenidge |