The COVID-19 pandemic has ensured that it can’t be business as usual – more firms are leveraging digital solutions for business continui.....
SRC Trade Quick Guide – Trade in Environmental Goods
Our latest SRC Trade Quick Guide looks at trade in environmental goods. You can access the guide Read More
CARICOM SIDS and the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations
Alicia Nicholls and Leisel Juman
By the time the World Trade Organization (WTO) holds its Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) in November this year, Members hope to have finally reached a multilateral agreement to discipline harmful fisheries subsidies. Fisheries subsidi.....
Final Communique from the Africa-CARICOM Summit
On September 7, 2021, the Heads of State and Government of Members of the African Union and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met virtually at a historic summit hosted by His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya.
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The UWI TradeLab law students produce Original Jurisdiction Case Digest for the CCJ
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (September 10, 2021). The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was one of the 2021 beneficiaries of the third iteration of The University of the West Indies (UWI) TradeLab Clinic. For this initiative, third-year law students from the Cave Hill Campus who participated in the Clinic prod.....
SRC and CDB co-host Inaugural Distinguished Owen Seymour Arthur Memorial Lecture
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – September 9, 2021 – Caribbean countries must adopt a resilience model of development if the region is to achieve the Rt. Hon Prof. Owen Seymour Arthur’s vision of sustained development and escape the chasm of cyclical underdevelopment. This was one of several important policy prescr.....
Caribbean-Africa Webinar Series Rapporteur’s Note
The SRC is pleased to share our Caribbean-Africa Webinar Series Rapporteur's Note. It is the first output from the informative series we cohosted with Tralac, Trapca and AfronomicsLaw over a period of five weeks in June and July 2021. The rapporteur's note, which was authored by the series' moderators Ms. Kholofelo Kugler (Co-Founder.....
Call for Consultancy
Coaches in Resource Efficiency & Circular Production (RECP) Coaching Program for MSMEs under the Green to Compete Hub- Caribbean
Background
The International Trade Centre (ITC) i.....
VIDEO RECORDING – Private Sector Investment for SDG Achievement Webinar
Thank you for all those who attended the Webinar on Facilitating Private Sector Investment for SDG Achievement in Caribbean SIDS held Thursday, August 5, 2021.
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The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and CARICOM
Dr. Jan Yves Remy and Kaycia Ellis-Bourne
On 14 July 2021, the European Union (EU) released its long-awaited proposal for a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which will serve as the EU bloc’s first carbon import levy. As anticipated, the proposed.....