Tuesday, Sep 09, 2008

#2008-13. The 'last word' on the EPA (FINAL EPISODE)

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FOR BROADCAST: Wednesday, September 10. The leaders of the Cariforum group of nations – the Caribbean Community and the Dominican Republic – meet in Barbados to clarify positions on the economic partnership agreement the region negotiated with the world’s largest trading bloc, the European Union. The final episode of Caribbean TradeBeat Extra gives the floor to Henry Gill, the director general of the CRNM, as he speaks on the EPA, what it could do for the region’s economies and even its efforts at unity and what Caribbean trade negotiators have achieved that’s now the envy of the world.

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Monday, Sep 08, 2008

#2008-12. Making the case for the EPA

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FOR BROADCAST: Tuesday, September 09. Highlights of the presentation by the director general of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, Henry Gill, at Guyana's national consultation on the EPA, as the business, labour and NGO community, together with the Bharrat Jagdeo administration hear the case for the Caribbean's entry into economic partnership with the European Union.

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Friday, Sep 05, 2008

#2008-11. EPA to set standards for Caribbean's world of work

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FOR BROADCAST: Monday, September 08. From his vantage point in both Paramaribo and the Caribbean capitals he’s travelled to as head of the Caribbean Employers Confederation, Marcel Meyer sees the EU-CARIFORUM economic partnership agreement more as a labour standards contract between Europe and its former colonies than as a strict trade deal. The EPA succeeds the Cotonou Agreement, whose development agenda focussed on the rights of Caribbean people to decent work... Produced and Presented by Julius Gittens.

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Thursday, Sep 04, 2008

#2008-10. Small business, big role in Caribbean EPA

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FOR BROADCAST: Friday, September 05. The president of Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Sandra Husbands, who also leads the Barbados Small Business Association, opens her crystall ball on the fate of small business in the coming era of economic partnership with the European Union, and sees bright opportunities in Caribbean niche goods and services for European consumers.

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Wednesday, Sep 03, 2008

#2008-09. Bumper Crop from EPA for Eastern Caribbean farming?

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FOR BROADCAST: Thursday, September 04. As the private sector continues to have its say on what a new economic partnership agreement between the Caribbean and the European Union will do for a key export business, Bernard Cornibert, the head of the Windward Islands banana marketing company, WIBDECO, says it's high time for the region to become more productive and competitive. Can the EPA help? Produced and presented by Julius Gittens. Attention: This is a corrected version of the original episode #2008/09

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Tuesday, Sep 02, 2008

#2008-08. Farming a good deal out of the EPA - part two of two

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FOR BROADCAST: Wednesday, September 03. In the second of a two-part discussion on agriculture, the rice farmer and the trade negotiator look ahead to the future of a Caribbean export and global staple under a new economic partnership agreement with the European Union. What safeguards did the rice farmers get? And how will they cope with other economic partnership agreements that Brussels intends to initial with other global rice producers? Part two of two. Produced and presented by Julius Gittens.

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Monday, Sep 01, 2008

#2008-07. Farming a good deal out of the EPA - part one of two

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FOR BROADCAST: Tuesday, September 02. The rice farmer and the trade negotiator look ahead to the future of a Caribbean export and global staple under a new economic partnership agreement with the European Union. Were farmers consulted in the negotiations? And did they get what they wanted from the deal? Taking part: Dharamkumar Seeraj, general secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers' Association and Nigel Durrant, CRNM agriculture trade specialist. Part one of two. Produced and presented by Julius Gittens.

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Friday, Aug 29, 2008

#2008-06. Caribbean hospitality and the EPA

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FOR BROADCAST: Monday, September 01. Amid rising fuel costs and shrinking airlift into the Caribbean, the region's hospitality industry is keen to take advantage of the new Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), to be signed between the Caribbean and the European Union. Alec Sanguinetti, head of the Caribbean Hotel Association, spells out some of the EPA's many benefits to the hotel industry that he expects will give it additional leverage in becoming globally competitive. Produced and presented by Julius Gittens.

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Thursday, Aug 28, 2008

#2008-05. At your service: The EPA and the Caribbean services economy

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FOR BROADCAST: Friday, August 29. In the fifth programme of a new 13-part CRNM series, Caribbean TradeBeat EXTRA, we examine the likely impact of the new economic partnership agreement between the Caribbean and the European Union on the region's key export industries. As the Caribbean continues to earn more from what we do than and how we serve than what we make, we hear from services trade expert Larry Placide on the purpose and the promise of a new economic partnership agreement for trade in services… Produced and presented by Julius Gittens.

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Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008

#2008-04. "Yes, we have no bananas": The Caribbean and the EPA

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FOR BROADCAST: Thursday, August 28. In the fourth programme of a new CRNM series, Caribbean TradeBeat EXTRA, we examine the likely impact of the new economic partnership agreement between the Caribbean and the European Union on the region's key export industries. "Yes, we have no bananas" could sum up the future of the Caribbean banana industry but the EPA offers a way out of a tortured history of relentless challenges by larger Latin American nations intent on eroding the Caribbean's market share and competitiveness. Dr. Marshall Hall, shareholder and former managing director of the Jamaica's largest banana exporter, Jamaica's Producer's Group explains. Produced and presented by Julius Gittens.

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Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008

#2008-03. A new 'sweetener' for Caribbean sugar's future

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FOR BROADCAST: Wednesday, August 27. In the third programme of a new CRNM series, Caribbean TradeBeat EXTRA, we examine the likely impact of the new economic partnership agreement between the Caribbean and the European Union on the region's key export industries. Does the EPA offer the region a sweeter deal for moving from an historic primary product - raw sugar - to a Caribbean-branded, value-added future? One of the region's sugar industry leaders, Ambassador Deryck Heaven, executive chairman of the Sugar Authority of Jamaica, reveals how four years of negotiating and private sector input have reaped rewards, as an old accord gives way to a new business venture. Produced and presented by Julius Gittens

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Monday, Aug 25, 2008

#2008-02. Five Olympic Lessons for Caribbean global competitiveness

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Olympic silver medallist and sports administrator Grace Jackson shares the secrets of Jamaica's incredible success at the 2008 Games in Beijin - five lessons that Caribbean business can learn from the Jamaican athletic culture in order to become internationally competitive. As it turns out, a key character in the story is the private sector... FOR BROADCAST: Tuesday August 26.

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Friday, Aug 22, 2008

#2008-01. A new era begins - the EPA

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In the first programme of a new CRNM series, Caribbean TradeBeat EXTRA, Henry Gill, the director general of the CRNM, details key features of an economic partnership agreement, thought to be the best vehicle for a more reciprocal trade between Europe and African, Caribbean and Pacific groups. The EPA is the climax of a story that began as far back as 2004, when talks began on a replacement for the Cotonou trade and aid agreement, itself the successor to the Lome agreement.

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