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2008 Statements

• G8 Statements on World Economy, Development and Africa, Global Food Security, Environment and Climate Change, Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change

 

• Report on Wilton Park Conference 900, Caribbean States in 2020: Sinking, Surviving or Prospering? (28 February – 1 March 2008)

http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/documents/conferences/WP900/pdfs/WP900.pdf

 

• The outline of the US Farm Bill has been finalized. This legislation will include extensions of critical trade preferences for Haiti and the Caribbean Basin. Click here to view a summary of the provisions.

 

• On 29 April 2008, the CRNM Director-General, Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, delivered a lecture entitled Globalization: Everything But Alms: The EPA and Economic Development on the occasion of the Annual GraceKennedy Foundation Lecture. Since 1989, the Annual GraceKennedy Lecture has highlighted issues of social and economic concern. The theme of this year's Lecture explored issues of trade and aid, through the examination of the Economic Partnership Agreement.

Click here to view the lecture.

 

• Statement by Jamaica PM Bruce Golding at the 19th Inter-Sessional Meeting, Nassau, Bahamas

 

• Feature Address by the Hon. Christopher P. Sinckler on the Occasion of the Opening Ceremony of the Two-Day Symposium “Caribbean Services Exports under the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement”, 10-11 March 2008

 

• On Tuesday 11 March 2008, The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, MP delivered a public lecture entitled “The Economic Partnership Agreement between CARIFORUM and the European Union and the Building of A Post-Colonial Economy in the Caribbean” at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Cave Hill Campus University of The West Indies.   To read the lecture click here.

• Stop Living in the Past - Bernal  (The Jamaica Observer: 22 February 2008)

• The Rt. Hon David Thompson Prime Minister of Barbados received CRNM Director General Ambassador Richard Bernal on the 15th of February 2008.  During that time the Director General and the Prime Minister engaged in discussion on matters pertaining to the region’s external trade negotiations.

2007 Statements

• Trade, Finance and Currency: Interrelationships with Special Reference to Small Economies by Prof. Bishnodat Persaud at the Celebrations of 40th Anniversary of the Bank of Mauritius and of the New Bank Tower, 15th November 2007

• Statement by the Hon. Bruce Golding Chairman of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee

  on External Negotiations 

• Statement by the Honourable Dame Billie Miller Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and

  Foreign Trade of Barbados at the IDB/WTO Conference on Aid For Trade, Lima, Peru, September13-14, 2007

• CRNM Director General, Dr. Richard L. Bernal speaks (Source: DR1.com, 22 August 07)

Address by The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur Prime Minister of Barbados and Chairman of CARICOM at the Opening Ceremony of the 28th CARICOM Heads Of Government Conference Bridgetown, Barbados, July 1, 2007

• Joint Statement: Conference on the Caribbean, Washington, DC, 20 June 2007

  Keynote Address Given by The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur Prime Minister of Barbados at the Opening

  Plenary Session of the Conference on the Caribbean, Washington, D.C., USA, 19 June 2007

• Address by The Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, On, Mp,  Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Subcommittee On External Negotiations to the Conference on the Caribbean, Washington Dc, June 19, 2007

• Address By The Hon. Dame Billie Miller, Senior Minister And Minister of Foreign Affairs And Foreign Trade Of Barbados at The Wilton Park Conference, Sussex, England, 23 May 2007

• Statement Delivered by Honourable Charles Savarin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Labour of Dominica to the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Council For Trade and Economic Development (COTED), Saint Lucia, 18 May 2007

• Statement delivered by The Honourable Guy Mayers, Minister for Trade, Industry and Commerce of Saint Lucia at the G-33 Ministerial Meeting on behalf of the ACP, Jakarta Indonesia March 21, 2007

• CRNM Private Sector Workshop a Success in Dominica: On February 6-7 over 30 members of the Dominica private sector, through the collaborative assistance of Dominica Employers Federation (DEF) and the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC), participated in a training workshop on trade facilitation and services hosted by the CRNM. This workshop is part of a new series of Regional boot-camps coordinated and implemented by the CRNM in collaboration with USAID-Caribbean Open Trade Support Program (COTS) which are designed to help the private sector to meaningfully participate in the WTO and EPA negotiations through preparation of position briefs. The participants in the Dominica workshop were awarded certificates of participation. The emanating position briefs will be reviewed by the DEF and DAIC.

• CRNM Director General Meets with The Prime Minister of St. Lucia

• Heads of Government of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have agreed at the 44TH Meeting of the OECS Authority to recommend to CARICOM that a Free Trade Area between CARICOM and the US should not be pursued at this time. >>Click Here for More

• Statement by Hon. Henry B. Jeffrey, CARICOM Ministerial Spokesperson on Sugar, on the Recently Concluded 4th Meeting of CARICOM Sugar Stakeholders, January 11-12, 2007, Georgetown.  

• Dr. The Hon. Timothy Harris Ph.D., Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Industry and Commerce of St. Kitts and Nevis visited the Head office of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery in Kingston, Jamaica on Monday, 8th January.  He met with Director General, Ambassador Dr. Richard L. Bernal and members of staff.  The Minister was accompanied by High Commissioner Cedric Harper.

2006 Statements

Director General of the CRNM Ambassador The Hon. Dr. Richard L. Bernal, OJ met yesterday with key stakeholders in the Jamaican sugar industry -Ambassador Derrick Heaven, Executive Chairman, Sugar Industry Authority and Mr. Karl James, Chairman, Sugar Association of the Caribbean- to discuss negotiating strategies with respect to the treatment of sugar in the EPA negotiations.

Director General of the CRNM Ambassador Richard Bernal met with Senior Officials of DFID in London and is scheduled to meet with Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mr. Ransford Smith.

Speech to the South Centre Conference on EU-ACP Trade Relations: The Development Challenge of EPAs  by The Hon. Dame Billie Miller

To The PSE Conference on EPAs: Fostering Regional Integration and Development? European Parliament, Brussels, 19 October 2006

CRNM Director General Dr. Richard Bernal addressed the 8th World Congress of Consuls on Wednesday, 8 November 2006 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Montego Bay Jamaica, on the theme Trade and Sustainable Development.

Statement on Private Sector Online Forum: “ The Impact of Trade negotiations on Business Development Strategies”- August 8, 2006, 1-3 pm by Amb. Richard L. Bernal

RNM Head welcomes appointments of Ambassador Mathurin and Francis

Responding to recent announcements by the Governments of Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago that Ambassador Gail Mathurin and Ambassador Dennis Francis had been selected to head the Jamaica Mission to Geneva and Trinidad & Tobago Mission to Geneva, respectively, Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) Ambassador Dr Richard Bernal today (July 13) said he welcomed their appointments.  In offering his congratulations, Ambassador Bernal noted: "both Ambassador Mathurin and Ambassador Francis are very able, experienced diplomats, who have been involved in trade diplomacy over many years.  They come to the WTO process at a critical juncture in the negotiations.”

Address by The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados and lead Head of Government with responsibility for the CSME, to the High Level Symposium on the Single Market and Economy: Caribbean Connect, Barbados Wednesday 28 June, 2006

RNM Head meets with Jamaican PM                                                                                                          Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery Director General Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal met with Most Hon. Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of Jamaica and Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Hon. Anthony Hylton on June 28, in Kingston, Jamaica.  Ambassador Bernal provided a briefing on the external trade issues to feature on the agenda of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Trade Negotiations, to be held in St. Kitts, July 3.  Up for discussion at the high-level meeting will be World Trade Organization and Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations.  Other issues will feature in the interchange, including bilateral accords.

Remarks Delivered By Hon. Charles Savarin, Minister For Foreign Affairs, Trade And Labour At The Opening Ceremony Of The OECS Ministers Of Trade Meeting, Roseau, Dominica, May 31, 2006

Address delivered by The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, at the opening of the Fifth UK/Caribbean Forum, Barbados, April 26, 2006

Ambassador Peter King Passes On

OAS Secretary General Lauds Jamaican PM

Remarks by H.E. Hon. Percival J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica

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                                                                          Source: OAS

Statement by Hon. Clement Rohee, CARICOM Ministerial Spokesperson on

Sugar to The Third Meeting of CARICOM Stakeholders on Sugar                         

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 6 February 2006

 

PM Patterson chairing the 18th Meeting of the PMSC on External Trade Negotiations, Port-of-Spain, February 8.  To the PM's left, RNM staff lead by Amb. Bernal (immediate left of PM. (Click on picture to enlarge)

Prime Minister Patterson Urges CARICOM to Establish Governance Structures

Address by the Hon. Dame Billie Miller, Barbados Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on an Assessment of the DOHA Round and the way Forward, Manchester University, 2-3 February 2006

Statements presented at the CARICOM Single Market Signing Ceremony Monday 30 January, Kingston, Jamaica

2005 Statements

Second South Summit of the Group of 77 and China (Doha, Qatar, June 12 to 16, 2005)

2004 Statements

                       (The Economist)

South American leaders discussing the launch of the nascent political and economic bloc of nations

                                                    (Reuters)

President Runaldo Venetiaan of Suriname and President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana (to the left of Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, who is in centre) on the occasion of the two-day Presidential Summit, walking with their South American delegations.  

Meeting of Ministers and Ministerial Representatives of the G90 in Georgetown, Guyana,  June 3 - 4

 

Remarks on the Occasion of the Opening Session

 

The Director-General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, met with Dame Antoinette Miller, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados, February 26.  At their meeting, Ambassador Bernal presented Minister Miller with a CD of RNM studies and technical papers.

 
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