Regional Training Workshop in Internationalization Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

 

                                                Royal Torarica Hotel, Paramaribo, Suriname, November 19, 2009

OPENING SESSION

 

ˇ        Address by Leela Ramoutar, Specialist Private Sector Facilitation CARICOM Secretariat, on behalf of Secretary General of CARICOM

ˇ        Address by Antonio Romero, Director of Relations for Integration and Cooperation of SELA

 

ˇ        Address by H.E. Drs. Clifford P. Marica,  Minister of Trade and Industry of Suriname

 

            SESSION I:  PANEL DISCUSSION - Situation of access to markets in    Latin America and the Caribbean

 

ˇ        Mr. Richard Trotman, Professor of Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago

 

ˇ        Mr. Omar Valenti, General Manager of Metodoger of Venezuela,  Strategies of Internationalization for SME

                

ˇ        Mrs. Lisa Callender, Director/ Principal Consultant, Innovative Project Solutions of Jamaica.  Coordinator of several projects in MSME Development for International Business, Trade and Export

ˇ        Mr. German Caires, Official of the Latin-American and the Caribbean Economic System (SELA)

 

            SESSION II: PRESENTATION OF CASES BY NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF SURINAME            

 

ˇ        Mr. Rene van Essen, Director of the Trade and Industry Association of Suriname (VSB)

 

ˇ        Mr. Mauro R. Tuur, MBA, Permanent  Secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Suriname

 

ˇ         Ms. Sieglien Burleson, Secretary of Suriname Business Forum (SBF)