Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur will deliver a lecture on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination at 7:30pm. The lecture is entitled The EPA and the Building of a Post-Colonial Economy in the Caribbean.The new economic arrangement between the Caribbean States and the European Union was negotaited under the Owen Arthur administration under the immediate direction of Dame Billie Miller. The then Government's emphasis had been on ensuring that the new industries were also taken into account in ensuring access to the European market. These industries include professional services, culture and entertainment and information technology.
According to the UWI Notebook "He has long maintained that the Caribbean depends more, in absolute and relative terms, on a favourable and appropriate international trading system than any other grouping of societies"Former Prime Minister Arthur is an economist who served as Barbados' Prime Minister from 1994 to 2008.
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