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RNM DG Letter to the Editor

In a May 22, 2004 article ("Miami nice") in The Economist, there was an oversight in the list of candidate cities for the permanent site of the headquarters for the Free Trade Area of the Americas;  Port-of-Spain was not listed.  Enclosed is Ambassador Bernal's Letter to the Editor, published in the June 10 edition of The Economist.

 

The Economist
Letters
June 10th 2004
From Economist.com

Come to my hub
SIR - You say Miami possesses all the attributes of a hub for Latin America and the Caribbean, and suggest that this gives it a "head-start" in its bid to be the permanent site of the headquarters for the Free Trade Area of the Americas ("Miami nice", May 22nd). In listing the contenders you fail to mention Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, the candidate of the 14 member states of the Caribbean Community. This may mislead readers that Miami's success is preordained-a view that some are propagating.

Richard Bernal
Director-general
Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery
Kingston, Jamaica

 

 

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