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Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012Contribution 30Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 31. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012[The seminar series on theEPA in April 2012] wasconvened against the backdrop of a fair amount ofdiscussion as to whether or not regional governments and the private sector have taken ownership of the EPA. 31Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 32. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 32Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 33. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 33Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 34. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 34Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 35. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012Perspective 35Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 36. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 36Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 37. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 37Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 38. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012Perspective 38Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 39. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 39Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 40. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012Perspectiveend More for Our-selves COTED ChairIn the face of the challenges currently confronting Ministers and delegates not to put off for tomorrowthe Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Member what could be done today.States needed to fend more for themselves andexpand intra-regional trade within theColleagues, this meeting of the COTED takesCommunity. This was the charge laid down by place at a time when CARICOM is undergoing aHonourable Dr John Collin McIntyre, Minister of period of introspection. Our Heads of GovernmentEmployment, Trade, Industry, Consumer and gave clear indications at their Conference earlierDiaspora Affairs of Dominica and Chairman ofthis month in Suriname, that it was time to askthe Council for Trade and Economicourselves and to answer some serious questions.Development (COTED) as he spoke at theThese questions relate to how, as an integrationOpening Ceremony of the 34th Meeting of grouping, we organize ourselves to deliver goodsCOTED in Georgetown, Guyana in late March.and services to our people and how we promotetheir interests and welfare. The next twelve (12)Minister McIntyre acknowledged that the months promise to bring interesting times anddeliberations were taking place against the developments to the Region, Minister McIntyrebackground of the continuing fall out of the global said.financial and economic crisis and the sovereigndebt situation being experienced in Europe. He added that the COTED Meeting could continueits own process of introspection. Maybe it is timeThe signals are clear. We have to begin to fendthat we agree to approach our work in the mostmore for our own selves. We must begin to direct manner going to the heart of the issuesdeliberately target expanded economic activity, brought before us for discussion and decision-including intra-regional trade, among ourselves.making. Let us not put off for tomorrow what canI sincerely hope that, that spirit of mutual reliance be done today, the Chairman told the Meeting.can inform our approach to all of the agendaitems which we must discuss, Dr McIntyre said. The Chairs outlook was shared by AmbassadorIrwin LaRocque, CARICOM Secretary-GeneralCalling for efficiency in the way the business of who, in his statement also referred to the currentthe Meeting was conducted, he charged Trade mode of reform and change in the Community to- 40Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 41. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 41Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 42. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012Perspective 42Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 43. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 43Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 44. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 44Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved. 45. Volume 2 | No. 2 | March/April 2012 45Copyright 2012, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat. All Rights Reserved.