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For Immediate Release:                                                                                  No. 05/2008
June 12, 2008

minister commends the crnm

Christ Church, Barbados – The Hon. Christopher Sinckler, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business, commended the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) for its public trade information and communications outreach and for its engagement with various interests groups including the private sector and the Non-governmental Organization (NGO) community. These commendations were given during the Minister’s speech delivered at the Grand Barbados Hotel on June 12, 2008 at the second instalment of the 2008 series of Interactive Trade Negotiations Bootcamps.

CRNM’s Director of Cooperation, Partnerships and Information, Trevor Boothe indicated that “The Interactive Trade Negotiations Bootcamps are part of an overall Communication Strategy which is designed to raise the level of public awareness and discourse about international trade. Our message is that trade matters to the Caribbean and that the participation of stakeholders in the process is paramount.  These Bootcamps are structured to reinforce that message through an intensive regimen that not only provides the participants with accurate information about the potential opportunities and challenges that exists under regional and international trade but also builds their capacity to participate wholly in future negotiation processes.”

Lincoln Price, CRNM’s Private Sector Liaison is the primary coordinator and facilitator of the Bootcamps. He indicated the 2008 series of Bootcamps is not the first of kind initiated by the CRNM. “We’ve conducted several Bootcamps over the past two years.  The first of this year’s series of Bootcamps successfully took place in Georgetown Guyana last the weekend. From Barbados we will move on to Haiti. We’re also scheduled to complete at least 7 more in this regional series of Bootcamps.”

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