JO - UWI scholar's scorching rebuke. Professor Brewster points to 'dogmatism and fear.'

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Jamaica Observer

UWI scholar's scorching rebuke

Professor Brewster points to 'dogmatism and fear'

RICKEY SINGH

Sunday, November 16, 2008

One of this year's distinguished recipients of an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies, Professor Havelock Brewster, has offered a disturbing perspective of what can happen when intellectual challenges are made to ideas, policies and programmes in our Caribbean region.

RICKEY SINGH

With his own long history of service to regional, international institutions and governments of the Caribbean, the Guyana-born scholar and first professor of economics of the UWI (Cave Hill campus) focused his analysis on an observation made earlier this year by Chancellor Sir George Alleyne during celebratory activities for the university's 60th anniversary.

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Snippet(s):

"We have given Europe valuable concessions in trade, services and investment in exchange for uncertain or non-existent prospects of exporting to their markets.

. Our discretion to promote development according to our own policies, objectives and priorities has been qualified in significant respects; and

. We have permitted our own plans for deepening integration in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy to be pre-empted, to be subordinated, to the requirements of Europe."