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Programme

Mon, Sep 09 2024

  • 08:00 am to 08:55 am
  • 08:55 am to 09:00 am
  • 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)

  • 09:30 am to 10:00 am

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

  • 10:00 am to 10:30 am
  • 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 

  • 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  

  • 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