Caribbean
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4-Apr-2009
World Bank says preferential deals don’t help regional performance
The World Bank says favourable treatment offered by Europe and North America has not helped the Caribbean’s overall trade performance.
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25-Feb-2009 EP
EU partnership accord with the Caribbean: green light from MEPs, with conditions
The European Parliament should gives its assent to the economic partnership agreement between the Cariforum states and the EU, provided that undertakings are given by the Commission and Council for a review clause and that extra aid for trade is included
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14-Feb-2009
Jamaica could become regional economic hub under EPA
Jamaica could become the business and industrial hub of the Caribbean and the Americas, thanks to the opportunities presented under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), signed recently between CARIFORUM States and the European Union (EU).
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2-Feb-2009 Norman Girvan
Financial regime change? by Robert Wade - A comment
In an article titled “Financial Regime Change” published in New Left Review, September-October 2008, Robert Wade has made a number of points which have salience in the context of the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
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29-Jan-2009
Ramphal warns against ’devaluing goals’ of CSME
Sir Shridath Ramphal has warned against the danger of "devaluing the goals" of the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) and is urging the region’s decision makers to avoid a course that could only be "to our peril" at a time of enormous economic challenges.
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23-Jan-2009 The New American
EU déjà vu in the Caribbean
Just as the European Union was sold to Europeans as a trade agreement even though it was actually a political union, so it has been sold again, this time to the islands of the Caribbean.
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13-Jan-2009
Guyana - Jagdeo says negotiating mechanism flawed
President Bharrat Jagdeo has taken another jab at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). This time he is adamant that it cannot speak for Guyana at upcoming trade talks with Canada.
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12-Jan-2009
With economic integration on their minds
Making hemispheric Economic Integration work for all. This is one of the aspirations spelled out in the report of the Partnership for the Americas Commission, a grouping of leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean, which is linked to the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
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20-Dec-2008 Analítica.com
CALC: ¿Sin calco?
La I Cumbre de América Latina y el Caribe (CALC) hizo que esta región por primera vez se reúna sin EEUU o Europa. Sentó bases para que la CALC busque transformarse en una comunidad permanente.
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16-Dec-2008 Fresh Plaza
Dominican Republic no longer interested in joining CARICOM
The country has no faith in CARICOM’s ability to either address pending agreements or to be the implementing authority for the CARIFORUM/EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
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20-Nov-2008
Expert calls for establishment of services coalition
As the Economic Partnership Agreement “EPA Implementation Brainstorming Meeting”, continued yesterday, it was made clear that Antigua and Barbuda needed to establish a “services coalition”.
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24-Oct-2008 RMR
Free trade, suicide clause and growing hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
The free trade agreements that the US and the European Union “propose” to Latin America and the Caribbean include waiving sovereign control on food flows. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization admits that although food production increased in the region, the number of people suffering hunger also did.
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20-Oct-2008 Haitie-Diplomatie
Two Caribbeans emerge at EPA signing
Setting aside the character assassination, suggestions that Caribbean heads had agreed a flawed document, letters questioning the role of senior figures and damaging inter-institutional rivalry, what is clear is that a more fundamental philosophical divide has emerged in the context of the EPA over the direction in which the region and its integration process is headed.
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19-Oct-2008 Radio Jamaica
Guyana now ready to sign EPA
After opting out of Wednesday’s signing, Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo now says the country is ready to take forward the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.
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17-Oct-2008 Jamaica Observer
CARIFORUM signs EPA without Guyana, Haiti
The signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the CARIFORUM Group - Caribbean Community states and the Dominican Republic - went ahead as planned. However, Guyana and Haiti, which had both expressed reservations about sections of the agreement, did not attend the signing ceremony in Barbados.
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6-Oct-2008 Jamaica Observer
Europe’s ploys to secure EPA signing coming to light
The many ploys that the European Commission has used to bulldoze Caribbean countries into signing the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union are coming to light.
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1-Oct-2008 AlterPresse
Des mouvements sociaux saluent la position de refus haïtienne par rapport aux APE
Des organisations sociales dans le pays saluent la décision du gouvernement haïtien de ne pas signer le document des Accords de partenariat économique (Ape) avec l’Union européenne
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1-Oct-2008 AlterPresse
Haitian social organizations welcome the refusal of Haiti to sign the EPA
It is imperative to continue with the mobilization so that Haiti remains part of the growing group which rejects the pressure being applied by the European Union for CARIFORUM members to sign the EPA at the next meeting, scheduled for 15 October in Barbados.
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22-Sep-2008 The Nation
Selassie’s warning about Europe prophetic
The heated debates in the Caribbean surrounding this region’s involvement in an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe and the upcoming sixth summit of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries in Ghana where similar issues will be debated, brings to memory the words of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie who saw a long time ago the danger the European union — then the European Common Market — would pose for Africa.
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16-Sep-2008 Barnacle Grenada
CARIFORUM agrees to sign EPA
Thirteen of the 15 Member States indicated their readiness to sign the Agreement at the Third Meeting of the Heads of State and Government of CARIFORUM held at the Sherbourne Centre, Barbados on Wednesday. Haiti indicated that there were reservations which had to be cleared at the Presidential level before signature of the document, while Guyana stated that it was not in a position to sign the EPA.
