According to a media advisory released by the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Court will convene a hearing for further directions in an Advisory Opinion being sought by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The two-day hearing will take place on October 22-23, 2019.
The Advisory Op.....
Trade ministers from across the Commonwealth today made a commitment to resist all forms of protectionism, and to work urgently together towards reforming the World Trade Organisation, which sets the global rules for international trade.
Following a meeting in London, ministers fro.....
The 2019 edition of the WTO’s World Trade Report highlights that services have become the most dynamic component of international trade and that its role will continue to expand in the coming decades. It stresses the need to enhance cooperation in the international community to support this expansion. The report was launched durin.....
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Investment officials from CARICOM Member States will come together for the CARICOM Forum on International Investment Agreements from 30 September to 2 October 2019 in Barbados. They will examine reform of international inves.....
By: Dean C. Forbes, Gabrielle Whitehall and Jan Yves N. Remy
Today, more than 120 countries have privacy and data protection laws or regulations in place. Many of the new or modernized laws tend to be based on comprehensive legislation, rather than sectoral rules, as data.....
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque anticipates that diplomatic political cooperation between the Community and India will deepen when the two sides meet on September 25th in New York.
Heads of Government of CARICOM will have.....
By: Nia Marshall
A new Prime Minister is usually synonymous with new beginnings – setting clear economic and social objectives, and then creating a plan for achieving them. But ever since 2016, United Kingdom (UK) politics has been consumed largely with Brexit, leaving l.....
By Dr. Arthur Phillips and Dr. Jan Yves Remy
Oftentimes, in public discourse, trade and health are presented as opposing factions competing for governments’ attention and priority. Those who ardently believe i.....
Prime Minister of Barbados, the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, was the featured speaker at the 16th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Raúl Prebisch Lecture at its European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on September 10, 2019.
Prime Minister Mottley’s lect.....
Port of Spain, Trinidad. Port of Spain, Trinidad. The Caribbean Court Justice (CCJ) and the CCJ Academy for Law earlier today, hosted a working meeting at the CCJ’s Headquarters to review and finalize a draft Manual on the CCJ’s Original Jurisdiction Referral Process.
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