Caricom Nations Still Need to Comply
January 30th, 2012Source: The Jamaica Observer
Although mandated studies have found an estimated overall 64 per cent level of “compliance” in the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME), the harsh reality is that it is yet to be “fully embraced” by a number of member states.
That, basically, is the assessment of findings in reports submitted to the Georgetown- based Caricom Secretariat with free intra-regional movement of services and the right of establishment identified as the two areas of “major deficiencies” among the five “core regimes” of the CSME.
Additionally, there continues to be disappointment and discomfort with respect to the pace of progress in addressing the old problem of free movement of Caricom nationals with particular concern in relation to advancing the process of free movement of skilled nationals of the 15-member community.
The five “core regimes” of the CSME — the often claimed “flagship project” of Caricom which will mark …
Prime Minister Golding And IMF Director Strauss-Kahn Praise Renewed Partnership With Caribbean Community
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, July 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn met today at the CARICOM summit at Rose Hall Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica. On the agenda for the summit are matters of trade, economic and financial issues, the recovery of Haiti post earthquake, human and social development, climate change and the environment, and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The regional issues the leaders are addressing are inextricably tied to broader global concerns.
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Director Strauss-Kahn said that while the global economic crisis is not over, there is a positive outlook, saying, “Caribbean countries have a chance to put an end to the negative cycles of high debt and low growth…This is an opportunity to put public finances on …
Is Press Freedom Under Threat in the Caribbean?
October 17th, 2009SOURCE: KNIGHT CENTER, jOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS
The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) has warned media groups in the region of a bill being proposed by the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) that could threaten press freedom in the region, writer Nicholas Laughlin reports.
The bill calls for the licensing and registration of media workers, which ACM President Wesley Gibbings says is not subject to negotiation. “It is a well-established fact that the licensing of journalists constitutes an outright threat to freedom of the press and other rights. There is also a growing body of international judicial precedents which determines its unlawful nature.”
Laughlin adds, “With a few simple manipulations, this bill could essentially give Caricom governments the power to determine who can and cannot practice journalism. And it leaves citizen journalists — who the Caribbean mainstream media still don’t quite understand or respect — in limbo.”
Gibbings, Laughlin, …
