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.
#56. Taking the pulse of business
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The CRNM meets the private sector on the results of a year-long survey that sought to gauge the relationship between the business community and the people who negotiate trade deals on their behalf. Hear how the CRNM intends to move forward now that it has such vital feedback from the private sector from Director General Ambassador Richard Bernal and Private Sector Liaison Lincoln Price. Tradespeak explains flexibility and progressivity.
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Friday, Nov 17, 2006#55. News from the front
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The Director-General of the CRNM, Ambassador Richard Bernal, updates Caribbean TradeBeat on topical issues straight from the headlines - including the European Union-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and his thoughts on the impact of the recent mid-term congressional elections in the United States on the Caribbean's trade agenda. TradeSpeak revisits special and differential treatment.
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Friday, Nov 10, 2006#54. The business of culture - part three of three
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Festival sunrise. As the Caribbean celebrates everything from soca to rum, the burgeoning number of carnivals and festivals poses fresh challenges - and tantalising opportunities - for developing all the region's creative industries - from filmmaking to mas' to music. Hear Dr. Keith Nurse reveal what he and fellow researchers found in a study of the cultural industries for the CRNM. TradeSpeak goes on TRIPS.
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Friday, Nov 03, 2006#53. The business of culture - part two
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Minshall's musings... Trinidad & Tobago's world-famous carnival designer and bandleader, Peter Minshall, suggests that the Caribbean moves from a narrow self-interest in sponsoring cultural products to a long-term strategy of investment in the arts, while examining how creators should go about improving not only Caribbean standards of living but the quality of life. He took part in a CRNM seminar on promoting the Creative Industries. Tradespeak asserts economic rights.... Part two of two.
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