2nd COUNTRY CONFERENCE: Montserrat

PROGRAMME (Links are to the abstract)

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2008

7.00 p.m. Registration and Welcome Reception (Home of Head of UWIOC, Montserrat, Woodlands)

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2008

9.00 a.m. Registration

9.30 a.m. Opening Ceremony

Keynote Address by Professor J. A. George Irish, Executive Director of the Caribbean Research Centre and Professor of Caribbean and Latin American Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York (CUNY)

10.30 am COFFEE BREAK

11.00 am Session I – Chaired by Elliot Clarke (MDC)

Transportation Planning for a New Montserrat: Three Ideas to Consider for Economic Growth by Colin M. Riley, Programme Officer, UWI Open Campus Montserrat

Investing in Intellectual Property: Profiting from Creativity by Warren M. Cassell, Attorney-at-Law, Montserrat

12.15 pm LUNCH

1.30 pm Session I - Chaired by Elliot Clarke (MDC) cont/d

Sustainable Tourism Development in Montserrat by Joseph Lema, Ph.D. & A. Philip Handel, Ph.D., Drexel University, Philadelphia.

The Economic Development of Montserrat by Noel Gray, Ph.D., Lecturer, American InterContinental University, Atlanta, GA

Montserratness and Sustainable Development: Some Post-1995 Reflections by Gertrude Shotte, Ph.D. Institute of Education, University of London

3.15 pm BREAK

3.30 pm Session II - Chaired by Noel Gray

SERIES OF FIVE MINUTE PRESENTATIONS (including presentations from the Montserrat Volcano Observatory)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2008

9 a.m. Registration

9.10 a.m. Session IV - Chaired by Candia Meade

Natural Environment and its Prospects for Sustainable Development in Montserrat in the 21st Century by Godfrey St. Bernard. SALISES, St. Augustine.

A Study of Damage to Beaches Following Extreme Weather Event on Coastline of Montserrat 19 – 22 March 2008 by Hon. Margaret Dyer-Howe, M.P. Montserrat

Climate Change: Its causes, impacts and progression by Claude Gerald, Project Consultant, OECS Climate Change Centre, Montserrat

The Development of the Caribbean Sea as a Special Area in Order that the Region might Adopt Legal Measures to Pursue its Interest through Protection of the Caribbean Sea by Claude E. S. Hogan, Labour Commissioner, Montserrat

11.00 am COFFEE BREAK

11.15 am Session III – Chaired by CT John, ECCB Resident Representative

Caries Prevalence and Experience of 12-year-old Children in Montserrat by Coretta E. Fergus, DDS, Government Dental Clinic

Women in Montserrat: Power, Personal Safety, and Real Development by Shirley Osborne.

12.30 pm LUNCH

1.45 pm Session III – Chaired by CT John, ECCB Resident Representative cont/d

Quality Early Childhood Education: Montserrat’s Sustainable Development by Sheron Burns Ph. D. Ministry of Education, Montserrat

Steelpan Playing and Academic Performance by Joan Bobb-Alleyne-Dann, UWI Open Campus Tobago

External Education Providers: A Sustainable Development Model for Montserrat by Gracelyn Cassell, UWI Open Campus Montserrat

3.40 pm BRIEF CLOSING CEREMONY

© Gracelyn Cassell, 2008. Page last revised November 4, 2008.

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