Caribbean Capital Markets Integration Forum

Financial Integration- One Regional Capital Market

Caribbean Capital & Equity Markets Integration
CLAA Regional Trade & Investment Forum
in collaboration with
The University of the West Indies’ Institute of Business,
The Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce, and
The Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks

October 7-8, 2003 – Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Agenda

Tuesday	October 7, 2003
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Opening Reception
Wednesday	October 8, 2003
7:00 am - 9:00 am	Registration
8:00 am - 8:30 am	Opening Remarks – Federico Sacasa, Executive Director, CLAA & Kathleen Donawa, Public & Government Affairs Manager, ChevronTexaco Eastern Caribbean, CLAA Vice President-CARICOM Welcome Remarks – Dr. Rollin Bertrand, President, CAIC Welcome Remarks – Dr. Rolph Balgobin, Executive Director, UWI-IOB
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Opening Address – His Excellency Patrick Manning, Prime Minister, Trinidad and Tobago (I)
9:00 am - 9:45 am	The Competitiveness of the Caribbean Capital Markets The View from the Exchanges – Roy Johnson, Chairman, Jamaica Stock Exchange The View from the ECCB – Trevor Blake, Director, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank The View from the United States – Cynthia Hostetler, Vice President of Investment Funds, OPIC A Pilot Program for Integration – Angella Persad, Partner, Ernst & Young
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Concurrent Roundtables – Where do we want to be in 2005? Banks and Entrepreneurship – Larry Howai, CEO, First Citizen Bank Trinidad &Tobago Monetary Policy – Eutrice Carrington, Manager-Investment Mgt. Services, T&T Unit Trust Corp. Legal & Regulatory – Kelvin Sergeant, Director of Research and Policy, Trinidad Securities Exchange Commission Technology & Common Institutions – Ram Ramesh, CEO, Caribbean Money Market Brokers Corporate Governance – Philip Marshall, Director, RBTT Financial Holdings Limited
12:00 pm- 12:30 pm	Roundtables Presentations by Moderators Panel Moderator: William Robinson, Trinidad Representative, Inter-American Development Bank
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Luncheon: Dr. Roy L. Austin, Ambassador, Embassy of the United States of America
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Concurrent Roundtables – How do we get there? Banks and Entrepreneurship – Patricia Hamilton, CEO, Caribbean Association of Indigenous Banks Monetary Policy – Ewart S. Williams, Governor, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Legal & Regulatory – Hillary Deveaux, Executive Director, Securities Commission of the Bahamas Technology & Common Institutions – Baljit Vohra, General Manager, Eastern Caribbean Stock Exchange Corporate Governance – Ronald Harford, Managing Director, Republic Bank of Trinidad & Tobago
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Roundtables Presentations by Moderators Panel Moderator: Robert Sherretta, President, International Investor
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm	Closing Remarks: Federico Sacasa, Executive Director – CLAA
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm	Closing Reception