Contiene: Message from H.E. Eduardo Stein Barillas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala and Chairman of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States; Message from the Honourable Ralph Maraj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad Tobago; The Association of Caribbean States and Trade liberalisation in the Americas; Country Profiles; Strategic alliances and information networking in the Caribbean; The ACS and the regional integration process; CARICOM works to become a single market and economy; The ACS in the context of Latin American-Caribbean Integration; Trade, Investment and regional cooperation: the Caribbean Experience; ACS members and the global coffee market; The world market for sugar; The Caribbean Development Bank in pursuit of its mandate; The challenges facing the banking sector in the Eastern Caribbean; The Caribbean responds to the telecommunications challenge; Telecommunications in the ACS region; The Caribbean Tourism Organization . A study in regional unity; Caribbean dominates World Cruise Market; Towards a sustainable tourism in the wider Caribbean; Uniting the Caribbean by Air and Sea, by; Private sector takes ingreasing role in airport development; Cooperating to compete in a global environment - Airlines in the ACS; A passion for sport; UWI - unlocking the potential of the region; Useful Website addresses