Shridath Ramphal Centre, UWI

This month’s MITP Alum is Ms. Rea Burke. Swipe to see what she has been up to!

This month’s MITP Spotlight features Camille Russell-Thornhill of Cohort 4. Swipe to see what she has been up to!

Seasons Greetings from the Shridath Ramphal Centre!

The SRC is thrilled to announce, as a Christmas gift to you, the publication of our SRC Policy Brief “A Sustainable and Inclusive Trade Agenda for CARICOM”, which we have co-published with the TESS Forum on Trade, Environment, & the SDGs.

Authored by Dr. Jan Yves Remy, Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre, and Peta-Gay Facey Wilson, Assistant Attorney-General in the International Affairs Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Jamaica, this policy brief advocates for the Caribbean region’s development of a sustainable and inclusive trade agenda which leverages emerging trends in the global trading system.

The policy brief highlights the unique characteristics of CARICOM economies from a trade perspective, and explores the opportunities and challenges that a sustainable and inclusive agenda can deliver for them, using the regional CARICOM frameworks.

We invite you to read the full brief which is now available on our website and encourage you to share it with your networks to maximize its impact.

https://shridathramphalcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/TESS-SRC-Policy-Brief-A-Sustainable-and-Inclusive-Trade-Agenda-for-CARICOM.pdf

Happy Independence Day Barbados! 🇧🇧

This month’s MITP Spotlight features Dario Carrington of Cohort 18. Swipe to see what he has been up to!

From 30th October - 1st November 2024, the Shridath Ramphal Centre, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law of the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, hosted a regional ICJ Advocacy Clinic concerning the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice at the UWI Cave Hill School of Business.

The ICJ advisory proceedings concern the climate obligations that states have under international law to each other and in particular to SIDS and people who live in SIDS. The oral arguments for the ICJ proceedings will take place in December 2024.

Congratulations to Cohort 21 of the SRC’s flagship Masters in International Trade Policy (MITP) Programme who graduated on 19th October 2024.

In celebration, the SRC held a graduation dinner where the Cohort was joined by friends and family, SRC Staff, MITP Lecturers, and Dr. Trisha Tannis, SRC Board Member; Managing Director of the Unicomer (Barbados) Group; and Chairperson of the Barbados Private Sector Association, who delivered this year’s graduation address.

Special congratulations to Ms. Vanessa Mason who graduated with distinction and received the MITP award during the Faculty of Social Science’s Recognition Ceremony on 17th October 2024.

For more information about the Master’s in International Trade Policy (MITP) Programme visit our website: https://shridathramphalcentre.com/course/course-page-src/

The Shridath Ramphal Centre is pleased to invite you to our upcoming SRC Lunch Time Chat on A Sustainable and Inclusive Trade Agenda for CARICOM.

Join our distinguished speakers, the Honourable Kerrie Symmonds, Ambassador Nadia Theodore, Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, and Dr. Markus Gehring on 18th October 2024 at 11:00 a.m. EST for what promises to be an incredibly thought-provoking discussion. The webinar will also feature remarks from SRC Director, Dr. Jan Yves Remy, and SRC Research Fellow, Peta Gay Facey Wilson.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jq3rK44ZSnWvEDueX0OCXg

The SRC is thrilled to announce that the Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture, will be held on October 4th, 2024. This prestigious event promises an evening of transformative discourse, brought to you by our esteemed sponsors, the Central Bank of Barbados, Unicomer and Caribbean Export.

The evening’s featured speaker will be the renowned economist Ms. Marla Dukharan (), delivering a compelling lecture on “Tax Justice for the Caribbean?”. Ms. Dukaran, a leading voice in regional economic development, will explore critical insights into fiscal equity, growth, and sustainability within our region.

We invite you to join us for a night of thought leadership, inspiration, and dialogue as we continue to champion knowledge and innovation in the Caribbean.

The event will be live-streamed by UWITV: www.uwitv.global