Proposed activities of the CCST Secretariat for 1999

Summary Activities outlined under the Caribbean Council for Science and Technology (CCST); work programme fall under the headings: regional science and technology policy; renewable energy; science teaching; agro-processing; determination of priorities for science and technology for development; indicators on science and technology; follow-up to water resources meeting; CCST newsletter; competitiveness and industrial development programme; the five-year work programme 2000-2004; meeting of Ministers responsible for Science and Technology; and resource mobilization.

Transport in the Americas: linking regional systems

On 15 and 16 December 1998, in New Orleans, United States, the third Western Hemisphere Transportation Ministerial Meeting will take place. This is part of a work programme which has been incorporated into the Plan of Action of the Americas. The Summit of the Americas held in Santiago, Chile, in April 1998, and the adoption of negotiations mechanisms for the Free Trade Area of the Americas constitute two major landmarks of the continental integration processes this year. The current issue of the FAL Bulletin focuses on the relationship between trade and transport in the Americas, and includes a discussion of transport systems and the supporting integration progress in the continent.

Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM)

.--Introduction.-- Agenda item 1 – Opening remarks.-- Agenda item 2 - Adoption of agenda.-- Agenda item 3 - Procedural matters and organization of work.-- Agenda Item 4: Consideration of the work programme of the RCM for the period 2008-2009.-- Agenda item 5: Review of preparation for the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).-- Agenda item 6 – Conclusions of the TAC

Report of the second meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism (RCM)

.--Introduction.-- Agenda item 1: Opening remarks .-- Agenda Item 2: Adoption of agenda.-- Agenda item 3: Review of the work programme of the RCM for the period 2008-2009.-- Agenda Item 4: Review of preparations for the MSI Review 2010 .-- Agenda item 5: Proposals for 2010-2011 work programme.-- Agenda item 6: Close