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Date: 31 May 2007
TRINIDAD CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE TO FOCUS ON NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR THE CARIBBEAN
Caribbean Net News
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-1789--17-17--.html
“Climate change is rapidly
moving up the international agenda. Politicians globally recognise
that as the debate shifts its focus to environmental security, opportunities
will emerge in regions such as the Caribbean to encourage international
support for new policies on the economy, energy, investment and
in other areas”.
“For this reason the decision
by the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce and the Caribbean-Britain
Business Council to focus the 2007 biennial UK-Caribbean Business
Forum on the threats and opportunities of climate change is therefore
very welcome. This event will enable all concerned in the region
to understand better the need to develop a positive position on
how the Caribbean can take advantage of its status as a low carbon
emitter but one that is vulnerable to climate change”
So said Lord Foulkes, President
of the Caribbean-Britain Business Council (CBBC) and a former British
Development Minister when announcing in London that up to 150 participants
from Caribbean Governments, the private sector and the academic
world are expected to participate in the 2nd UK/Caribbean Business
Forum on June 8th at the Trinidad Hilton.
The CBBC President noted that speakers
will include the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick
Manning and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of
Jamaica, Anthony Hylton. Others participating as speakers and panellists
include; Dimitri Zenghelis, Lead Author from the Stern Review Team
; Dr Kenrick Leslie, Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate
Change Centre; Bert Brown, Managing Director, SGS Supervise; and
Juan Pablo Bonilla, SECCI Co-ordinator, Inter-American Development
Bank.
The conference will address threats
and opportunities to Caribbean business & industry; alternative
sources of energy and energy security; climate change and the Caribbean
insurance market; new challenges for tourism; and developing carbon
trading platforms and certification systems in the Caribbean.
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Date:
19 November 2006
BROWN BURIES EURO TO CAPTURE SCEPTIC VOTERS
The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1712702006&format=print
Brian Brady
THE pound will never be ditched in favour of the euro while Gordon
Brown holds the reins of power, his aides insisted last night.
Scotland
on Sunday can reveal that although Treasury officials are already
reviewing the infamous "five tests" devised by Brown to
decide whether to join the single currency, the Chancellor has ruled
it out.
Brown
will seize the opportunity to scupper one of Tony Blair's remaining
political ambitions by ruling that he will shun the euro as it would
critically damage Britain's economic competitiveness.
Senior
aides last night confirmed that, almost eight years after 12 European
Union colleagues ditched their own notes and coins and began trading
with euros, Brown still had no intention of taking Britain down
the same route and was instead preparing to rule out membership
for the duration of his own premiership if, as expected, he succeeds
Blair next year.
"Gordon
has made it clear, repeatedly, that this will be decided on the
economics," a Treasury source said last night. "He has
always harboured doubts over whether the time would ever be right
to enter. This was last looked at three years ago and I don't see
us getting any closer now. I think Gordon's going to be happy to
kick this way past the long grass for as long as he's around."
One
of the leading members of the pro-euro movement, Scottish peer Lord
Foulkes, last night said the UK had missed a "brief window
of opportunity" to enter the euro. But he accepted that staying
out was the correct decision.
"It's
not a live issue at the moment," said Foulkes, a former Labour
MP and member of the advisory board of Britain in Europe. "To
be honest, there is no enthusiasm or desire among even the most
ardent in the movement to raise it again.
"Our
economy is doing fine and there's a fairly obvious signal of that
in the consistently strong performance of the pound against the
euro."
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Dominican
entrepreneurs forge encounters with British parliament member
Date:
15 September 2006
Dominican Today
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=17583
Santo
Domingo.- The British Chamber of Commerce promoted a conversation
with British parliament member Lord H. Foulkes, who represents the
Labor Party before the Socialist International movement and is president
of the British-Caribbean Business Council.
The
parliamentary is the individual that propelled formation of a Multiparty
Group for the Dominican Republic.
The
encounter with the parliament member took place at the offices of
the National Council for the Private Enterprise (CONEP), where Dominican
businesspersons and British investors met, along with the United
Kingdom ad-hoc ambassador Paul Martinez.
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Date: 7 September 2006
British Lords are decorated by the Dominican President
Dominican Today
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=17249
Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday decorated George
Foulkes and Tristan Garel Jones, members of the United Kingdom’s
House of Lords, with the Order of Merit Duarte, Sanchez and Mella.
The
award ceremony took place in the National Palace.
Foulkes,
president of the Multi-partisan Group for Dominican Republic in
the British Parliament, as well as Garel Jones, executive director
of UBS, have maintained close contacts with the Latin American topics
throughout their respective parliamentary careers.
When
bestowing the decorations, Foreign minister Carlos Morales valued
the interest which both officials have shown to boslter relations
between the United Kingdom and Dominican Republic.
He
stated declared that their visit to the Dominican territory is appreciated
"as a step that will contribute to place the name of our country
in a privileged place in the agenda of the British investors."
Foulkes
and Jones expressed their gratitude for the distinction.
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Date: 1 September 2006
The British are coming, to explore Dominican business opportunities
Dominican Today
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=17041
SANTO DOMINGO.- A delegation of British parliamentarians arrives
in Dominican Republic today to meet with the president Leonel Fernandez
and Foreign minister Carlos Morales Troncoso.
The
Foreign Ministry announced that the delegation are member of the
Multi-party Group of Support for the Dominican Republic, with lord
George Foulkes, president of the Group and of the Caribbean Britain
Business Council, the baroness Gloria Hooper, both members of the
British Parliament’s House of Lords, as well as Bob Blizzard
and Robert Spink, of the House of Commons.
Also
coming to the country is a large delegation representing the construction,
commerce, tourism and real estate sectors, among others, to explore
the country’s investment opportunities.
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