Mon, Sep 09 2024

• Registration
  08:00 am to 08:55 am
• Security briefing
  08:55 am to 09:00 am
• Opening of the Eighth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable
  09:00 am to 09:30 am

  Statement by Pennelope Beckles-Robinson, Minister of Planning and Development of Trinidad and Tobago

  • Statement by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

  José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs - Opening statement
  Pennelope Beckles-Robinson - Opening remarks
• Addressing the challenges to resilient growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean
  09:30 am to 10:00 am

  Keynote statement by Terrance Drew, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (pre-recorded video)

• Group photo - Eighth meeting of the Caribbean Development Roundtable
  10:00 am to 10:30 am
• Confronting climate change through risk reduction and resilience building in the Caribbean
  10:30 am to 12:30 pm

  Panel discussion 

  Moderator: Gloria Joseph, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Public  Service Reform, Social Partnership, Entrepreneurship and Small Business  Development of Dominica 

  Panellists: 

  • Frederick Stephenson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and  Consumer Affairs of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
  • Mark Bynoe, Assistant Executive Director of the Caribbean Community  Climate Change Centre 
  • Elizabeth Emanuel, Head of Corporate Communications Technical Assistance  Management Teams of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility  (virtual) 
  • Saskia Carusi, Deputy Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas and the  Caribbean, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)  (pre-recorded video) 
  • Dwight Williams, Senior Manager of the Spatial Planning Division at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) of Jamaica 

• Operationalizing the multidimensional vulnerability index: addressing data needs
  02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

  Panel discussion 
  Moderator: Shelton Nicholls, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of  Trinidad and Tobago and former Senior Financial Sector Expert, International  Monetary Fund  

  Panellists: 

  • Anya Thomas, Sustainable Development Officer, Small Island Developing  States Unit, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations  (by video link) 
  • Walton Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the  United Nations 
  • Jason Cotton, Lead Economist, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) 
  • Richard Harris, Deputy Director of Statistics, Central Statistical Office of  Saint Lucia 
  • Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Coordinator, Statistics and Social Development Unit,  ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean  

• Improving access to innovative climate finance: towards investment in adaptation and structural change
  03:45 pm to 05:30 pm

  Moderator: Patrick McCaskie, Permanent Secretary a.i., Economic Affairs  Division, Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment of Barbados 

  Panellists: 

  • Hyginus Leon, Programme Lead, Development Bank for Resilient  Prosperity (DBRP) 
  • Rodinald Soomer, Executive Director, CARICOM Development Fund 
  • Manuel Rodríguez, Managing Director, Head of the Latin America Investment  Banking Group at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.  
  • Sheldon McLean, Coordinator Economic Development Unit, ECLAC  subregional headquarters for the Caribbean