Ross Sheil, Staff Reporter
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis:
THE CARIBBEAN Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM) has drafted in several leading trade experts and academics to boost its position in international trade negotiations.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday during the 27th Conference of Caribbean Heads of Government held at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank in Basseterre, St. Kitts, RNM Director General Dr. Richard Bernal said that the appointments were made on a voluntary basis.
"We are supplementing the expertise available to the RNM so we can have some new ideas thinking out of the box to assist the region ... we are trying to bring a wider set of skills," said Dr. Bernal.
APPOINTEES
International trade experts Sir Alister McIntyre, Ambassador Havelock Brewster and Professor Bishnodat Persaud have been appointed senior associates, together with Professor Norman Girvan of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona International Relations Department, who until recently was secretary general of the Association of Caribbean States.
Dr. Robert Devlin, formally at the Inter-American Development Bank and U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Anthony Clayton, professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development at the UWI Mona; and Professor Downes of the UWI, Cave
Hill have all been appointed advisers.
