Women in the Climate Shipping Negotiations at the IMO

Friday, 7 March, 2025

12:00 pm AST 

 

Moderator

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – Shridath Ramphal Centre

Ms. Jaeda Sutherland – Director – Women in Maritime Association Caribbean (Belize)

 

Speakers:

Amb. Ruleta Thomas – Climate Ambassador – Antigua and Barbuda

Ms. Atina Schutz – Legal Advisor – Micronesian Centre for Sustainable Transport

Dr. Helvi Petus – Senior Lecture – Namibia University of Science and Technology

Ms. Patricia Francis – Chairperson – Jamaica’s Trade Facilitation Task Force

 

Register here.

International Tax Webinar on BEPS Pillars 2

Wednesday, 12 February, 2025

2:00 pm AST / 1:00 pm (EST)

 

Moderator

Bruce Zagaris – Partner – Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP – CPC Fellow

 

Speakers:

Lynette Eastmond– Lead Counsel – Eastmond & Co.

Michael Durst – Member – District of Columbia Bar and Research Associate, International Centre for Tax and Development

Bevon Sinclair – Chief Technical Advisor – Commissioner General and Head of Dispute Resolution Division, Tax Administration Jamacia

 

The video recording is available here.

Reshaping US-Caribbean Trade Relations: 2.0 and Beyond

Tuesday 4th January, 2025

2:00 pm AST

 

Moderator

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – Shridath Ramphal Centre, UWI, CPC Fellow

 

Speakers:

Andrea M. Ewart Esq. – Attorney-at-Law – DevelopTradeLaw LLC, CPC Fellow

Jamila Thompson – Former Chief of Staff – Office of the US Trade Representative – Executive Office of the President

Dr. Scoot B. MacDonald – Chief Economist – Smith’s Research and Gradings, CPC Fellow

Hon. Kelly-Ann Shaw – Co-Chair – Geopolitical Risk and National Security Programme – Hogan Lovells

 

The video recording is available here.

Crafting Gender-Responsive Trade Policies

Friday 8th March, 2024

10:00 am AST

 

Moderator

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – Shridath Ramphal Centre, UWI

 

Speakers:

Dr. Amrita Bahri – Professor – International Trade Law, ITAM

Dr. Daniele Bobb -Lecturer – Gender and Development Studies, UWI

Prof. Katrin A. Kuhlmann – Co-Director- CITD Georgetown University

Tonni Brodber – Representative – UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean

 

The video recording is available here.

Developing Country Response to CBAM: Exploring their Legality, Practicality and Effectiveness

Thursday 25th January, 2024

10:00 am AST

 

Moderator

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – Shridath Ramphal Centre

 

Speakers:

Mustaqeem De Gama – Trade Consultant

Manal Shehabi – Director – Sheer Research & Advisory; Associate Faculty Member – University of Oxford

Atul Sharma – Co-Founder – Sarvada Legal

Colette Der Ven – Founder – Tulip Consulting

Geraldo Vidigal – Assistant Professor – University of Amsterdam

 

The video recording is available here.

Bringing CARICOM Trade and Climate Communities Together

Tuesday 24th October, 2023

11:00 am EST

 

Moderator

Donneil Cain – Project Development Specialist – CCCCC

 

Speakers:

Ambassador Colin Murdoch – Permanent Representative – OECS to the UN

Ambassador Carlos Fuller – Permanent Representative – Belize to the UN

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – Shridath Ramphal Centre

Rueanna Haynes – Director – Climate Analytics Caribbean

 

The video recording is available here.

Trade and the Bridgetown Declaration on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health

Tuesday 18th July 2023

12:30 pm AST

 

Moderator

Alicia Nicholls – Junior Research Fellow – The Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services

 

Speakers:

H.E. Ambassador Matthew Wilson – Ambassador of Barbados – United Nation, WTO and other International Organizations in Geneva   

Nicole Foster – Head – Law and Health Research Unit, The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus

Dr. Joy St. John – Executive Director – Caribbean Public Health Agency

Pierre Cooke Jr.  – Youth Advocate

 

The video recording is available here.

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs – In the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

Friday 3rd March 2023

11:00 am AST

 

Moderator

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – The Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services

 

Speakers:

Kim Butcher – Owner – OkoyebyKim 

Dr. Sylvia Dohnert – Executive Director – Compete Caribbean

Gayle Gollop – National Private Sector Specialist – Jamaica, UN Women 

Allyson Francis  – Services Specialist – Caribbean Export Development Agency  

 

The video recording is available here. 

Trade and Climate Action: Shifting the Paradigm for a Just Transition and Sustainable Development

Thursday 2nd February 2023

10:00 am AST

 

Moderator

Prof Thomas Hale – Professor – Public Policy (Global Public Policy) Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

 

Speakers:

Prof Dan Esty – Hillhouse Professor –  Environmental Law and Policy/Yale Law School / Director – Centre for Environmental Law and Policy

Dr. Kennedy Mbeva – Postdoctoral Research Associate – Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Dr. Jan Yves Remy – Director – The Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services

Dr. Carolyn Deere Birkbeck – Director – Forum on Trade, Environmental Sustainability and the SDGs (TESS)

Prof Joel Trachtman – Professor – The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University 

 

The video recording is available here.

US-Caribbean Relations: Increasing Private Sector Engagement

Thursday 1st December 2022

1 pm

 

Lead Presenter

 Andrea M. Ewart Esq. – Attorney-at-Law – DevelopTradeLaw LLC

 

Speakers:

Vashti Guyadeen – CEO – Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (TTCSI)

Trisha Tannis – Chairman – Barbados Private Sector Association

Nirad Tewarie – CEO -The American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad and Tobago (AMCHAM T&T)

Gordon Charles – President – OECS Business Council / CEO – JQ Charles Group of Companies Ltd.

 

The video recording is available here.