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EDITORIAL – Empathy with Mr Nicholson
KINGSTON, Jamaica – A.J. Nicholson might have engaged his mouth rather too loosely on this occasion. We, however, have some appreciation of, and sympathy with, his exasperation with some business and political leaders over their approach to alleged abuse of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) trade regime by some of our regional partners. Or, as Mr Nicholson put it in the…
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Trinidad minister defends local manufactures as well as Jamaican counterpart
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Trade and Industry Minister Vasant Bharath Tuesday defended his Jamaican counterpart, AJ Nicholson, who has come under pressure to “step aside” amid the ongoing trade dispute between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Bharath, speaking on local radio here, described the call for Nicholson’s departure by the Jamaica Manufacturers Association (JMA) as…
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Of trade, aid and silence
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – THE RECENT virtual back-to-back visits by the USA’s Vice-President Joseph Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping have served to fuel optimism for increased trade and economic investment among Caribbean Community states. Current realities in our trade relations with these major and quite influential powers should remind us that given the nature of small and vulnerable…
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WTO Director General urges Caribbean to take advantage of trade opportunities
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy Tuesday urged developing countries to ensure they have the necessary trade capacity to take advantage of a changing global environment. Addressing the launch of the Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade (AFT) Strategy, Lamy said however having trade opportunities is not enough. “We must translate…
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CARICOM says Aid for Trade pivotal to maximising trade agreements
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Tuesday launched its Caribbean Regional Aid for Trade (AFT) Strategy with CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque saying the strategy will play a pivotal role in allowing member countries to maximise the opportunities available under the various bilateral and multilateral trade agreements they have signed in the past. LaRocque told…
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Lamy: “Aid for Trade to support closer Caribbean integration”
Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the launch of the Caribbean Regional Aid For Trade Strategy in Port au Prince, Haiti on 11 June 2013, said: “Today intra-Caribbean trade stands at just 13% which, as CARICOM itself notes, is on average, at 46 % below its trade potential. There are tremendous opportunities for increasing the role of trade in the region’s growth.…
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WELCOME REMARKS BY AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE, SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY AT THE LAUNCH OF THE AID-FOR-TRADE STRATEGY
Your Excellency Michel Martelly, President of the Republic of Haiti and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, Honourable Oliver Joseph, Minister of Economic Development, Planning, Trade and Cooperatives of Grenada and Chairman of the CARICOM Council for Trade and Economic Development, Honourable Wilson Laleau, Minister of Finance and the Economy and Minister of Trade…
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UK will get no favours to stay in single market, MPs warn
Britain will not get “special treatment” from EU members to stay in the single market, MPs will warn as they urge Conservatives to be realistic about attempts to repatriate powers from Brussels. The Commons foreign affairs committee will say on Tuesday it is sceptical that member states would allow the UK to water down integration and repatriate powers. The cross-party…
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