Fifth Assembly of Caribbean Peoples Agenda

Topic No. 1 - International Economic & Debt Crisis
How are the Third World debt crisis and the international financial and economic crises impacting on the Caribbean, and how should the Caribbean respond?

Topic No. 2 - Colonialism, Militarisation & the Blockade against Cuba
What are the components of a comprehensive strategy to achieve the total de-colonisation of the Caribbean and to defeat the ongoing efforts of the United States to militarise the Caribbean and to blockade Cuba?

Topic No. 3 - Agriculture, Agrarian Reform & Food Sovereignty
What does the Caribbean need to do in order to reform the rural sector, develop agriculture and achieve "food sovereignty"?

Topic No. 4 - Integration, Political Union & Governance
What would be the components of new and more appropriate people centred models of governance for Caribbean states, and how could the nations of the Caribbean utilise all of the available options and opportunities for integration and political union?

Topic No. 5 - Industrial Development, Trade & Transportation
How can the Caribbean so harness, organise, combine, process and exchange its own resources that new industries are developed and existing industries are taken to higher levels of output and productivity?

Topic No. 6 - Drugs, Crime, Cultural degeneration & Racism
What measures can the Caribbean take to address the socio-cultural defects of illegal drugs, crime, racism and moral and cultural degeneration that continue to blight so many Caribbean societies?

Topic No. 7 - The Environment
What practical programme of cooperation can Caribbean nations put in place to address such urgent environmental issues as global warming, climate change, and the destructiveness of hurricanes and volcanoes?

Topic No. 8 - Intra-Caribbean Migration
What would be the components of a new and more appropriate human rights centred model for the treatment of migrants within the Caribbean?

Topic No. 9 - Education
We must develop a comprehensive educational system which demands the use of the languages used in the Caribbean - English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Papiamento(u) and Portuguese.

Topic No. 10 – Health
Health security for all of our peoples.