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General
Press Releases
Press
Release April
15, 2005
Bank
Announces Plans to Host Conference to Help Barbadians Better
Prepare for the CSME
The Central
Bank of Barbados today announced that it will be hosting a
public conference on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy
titled “Charting our Course in the CSME” on Thursday, May 5,
2005 at the Sherbourne Conference Centre.
The
conference aims to attract a wide cross-section of the Barbadian
public by bringing together a variety of distinguished local and
regional speakers, including: Government ministers, trade
negotiators, business executives, academics, trade specialists
and financial consultants to discuss how we can best position
ourselves to maximise the benefits from the CSME.
“We
have assembled a group of eminent speakers with varied regional
experiences because we would like the discussions to focus on
the practical aspects of maximising the gains from this economic
and trade arrangement,” Governor Dr. Marion Williams
commented.
She
disclosed that the presenters will include: His Excellency Dr.
Patrick Antoine, Grenada’s Ambassador to the World Trade
Organisation; The Right Honourable Mr. Justice Michael De La
Bastide, President, Caribbean Court of Justice; Dr. Winston
Anderson, Legal Counsel, CARICOM Secretariat; Mr. Michael
Mansour, Chairman, FirstCaribbean International Bank; Dr. Marion
Williams, Governor, Central Bank of Barbados; Dr. Lawson Nurse,
Barbados Private Sector Trade Team; Mr. Peter Miller, President,
Barbados Manufacturers’ Association; Dr. Stephen McAndrew,
Specialist, Free Movement Skills/Labour, CSME Unit; Mr. Marlon
Yarde, General Manager, Stock Exchange of Barbados; Mr. Wain
Iton, Financial Consultant, Capital Market; Dr. Trevor Farrell,
Senior Lecturer, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago; Mr.
Joseph Goddard, Managing Director, Goddard Enterprises and Dr.
Compton Bourne, President, Caribbean Development Bank.
Prime Minister of Barbados, The Right Honourable Owen
Arthur has been invited to deliver the feature address.
Consistent
with the Bank’s desire to concentrate on the practicalities of
the CSME, the speakers will be:
- Exploring
the opportunities and challenges to trade in goods and
services;
- Indicating
how to build export competitiveness in the region;
- Examining
the enhancement of the region’s under-developed capital
markets in order to facilitate capital mobility and regional
corporate expansion;
- Outlining
corporate experiences with regional integration;
- Examining
the short, medium and long term impact of integration on the
regional labour force;
- Explaining
the financing of the regional integration process;
- Discussing
legal and institutional framework – highlighting the role
of the CCJ;
- Explaining
the feasibility of, and possibilities for, monetary union;
and
- Examining
the integration of the CSME into the wider global trading
environment.
All
are invited to participate in this important forum and seize the
opportunity to ask questions of the experts, to represent the
views of various interests and to share views on what can be
done to more actively prepare for the CSME.
Attendance
at the conference is free.
You may register by clicking
here
and returning your form to ammose@centralbank.org.bb
or spmayers@centralbank.org.bb
2005-04-15
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