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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