Caribbean TradeBeat
Caribbean TradeBeat - the radio magazine - from the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery - aims to make the business of Caribbean trade talks your business. Caribbean TradeBeat keeps you informed and involved, as the CRNM works in the region's main negotiating theatres – from bilateral agreements to the global trade accord governed by the World Trade Organisation, the current Doha round. Hear the voices of the region's business community on how they meet the successes - or challenges - of global free trade and find more on how businesses, large or small, can help forge trade deals for the benefit of the Caribbean private sector - from securing better market access to developing innovative, sunrise industries and services. Write to Caribbean TradeBeat at privatesector@crnm.org. Produced by the CRNM with support from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented by Julius Gittens.
#52. The business of culture - part one
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A series of special reports on a CRNM conference of artists and experts to plan how to promote the Creative Industries. Their recommendations will help guide the Caribbean's trade negotiations seeking to carve a slice out of the seven percent of global economic output that's connected to the arts, entertainment and culture. Reverend Joseph Atherley, Barbados's Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office addressed the gathering. TradeSpeak defines expressions of folklore. Part one of two.
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Friday, Oct 20, 2006#51. Let's get creative!
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The creative industries are estimated to account for more than seven per cent of GDP. What's the Caribbean's slice of this global trade in publishing, cinema, music and the like? And what are some of the issues facing Caribbean producers that might find their way into the trade negotiator's brief as policy recommendations? We hear from CRNM services trade analyst Natallie Rochester, as experts meet to map out a trade and investment strategy from promoting creative industries. Tradespeak explains patents.
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Friday, Oct 13, 2006#50. Big in Japan...
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Caribbean TradeBeat celebrates its 50th edition in a reggae style and fashion - exploring the phenomenal success of Jamaica's reggae music in Japan! The island exports more than one million units of vinyl discs loaded with the great and the good of Jamaican music. Explore this remarkable niche for a world-renowned Jamaican export with Cleveland Browne, the chairman of the Recording Industry Association of Jamaica. And fittingly, Tradespeak gives 'nuff respect' to Copyright...
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Friday, Oct 06, 2006# 49. More 'stocktaking'
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Lincoln Price, the CRNM's private sector liaison, shares some of what his counterparts in business have been telling trade negotiators about the way through - and forward - in external trade, as the CRNM ends this year's series of Trade Power Dialogues and prepares to conduct Trade Seminars beginning in mid-November. TradeSpeak explains restrictive business practices. Part 2 of 2.
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