Meeting of Caribbean countries

2.30 – 2.45 p.m. Registration
2.45 – 3 p.m. Opening remarks

• Diane Quarless, Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean
• Socorro Flores, Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
• Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

3 – 4 p.m. Presentations

• Shifting frontiers: a challenge for the Caribbean, by Winston Dookeran, Director of Systematic Studies Limited, Trinidad and Tobago
• Reclaiming the magic: macroeconomic policy to address the economic challenges of the Caribbean, by Dillon Alleyne, Deputy Chief of the ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean
• Elements of a trade strategy for growth and development in the Caribbean, by Sheldon McLean, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean

​4 – 5 p.m. Discussion