(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Competition Commission is scheduled to facilitate a workshop on Competition Policy for specific stakeholders in Guyana on 24-25 June 2010. This is part of the Commission’s mandate to promote Competition Policy in CARICOM and disseminate information about it.

The workshop is targeting the Guyanese Judiciary and Commissioners of the newly appointed Guyana Competition Commission. The workshop is facilitated with the assistance of the 9th European Development Fund (EDF) Caribbean Integration Support Programme (CISP).

Among the topics to be addressed are Dominance, Monopoly Power and The Abuse of a Dominant Position. These matters are of infinite importance not only to Guyana but to every Member State participating in the CARICOM Single Market.

The main presenter at the two-day workshop will be Professor Alison Jones, Professor of Law at King’s College London.

Professor Jones has conducted competition law training for the UK Office of Fair Trading and the Pakistan Competition Commission. She is a co-author of Jones and Sufrin, EU Competition Law: Text Cases, and Materials.

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