Eight Books for CARICOM

Earlier this month Ian Randle met with Dr. Edward Green at the CARICOM Secretariat offices in Guyana and presented 8 new publications dealing with regional integration matters, all of which have been released this year. Dr. Green congratulated IRP for its sterling efforts in sustaining the high quality of material and for assisting in advancing the understanding of readers on the vital issues of regional integration.

The 8 new publications are:

• Understanding International Trade: A CARICOM Perspective
• Observing Elections: The Commonwealth's Way - The Early Years
• The Race for Fisheries and Hydrocarbons in the Caribbean Basin: The Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Dispute, Regional Delimitations Implications
• The Caribbean Integration Process: A People Centred Approach
• Intervention, Border and Maritime Issues in CARICOM
• CARICOM Single Market and Economy: Challenges, Benefits, Prospects
• Confronting Challenges, Maximizing Opportunities: The Diplomacy for Market Access
• CARICOM Single Market and Economy: Gensis and Prognosis

Making Books and Babies

We're producing children as fast as we're producing books! Since January, 5 children have been born to IRP staff members - from a staff complement of 12. In January we welcomed Oliver, son of Christine Randle our Managing Director. In April, Naima and Anisa, daughters of Latoya West our Customer Service Agent, were born; and in July, Shelly-Gail Folkes our Production Controller, produced Jonathan and Alexander. Congratulations to all 3 new mothers!