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.

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.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:00 PM |

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.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:00 PM |

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.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:00 PM |

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

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 1:14 PM |

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.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:00 PM |

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.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 10:11 PM |

Thursday, Aug 21, 2008