April 22, 2008No. 7/08 - BG NEWS RELEASE CARICOM PRIVATE SECTOR GROWTH TO BE FOCUS OF 2008 DEMAS LECTURE "Thoughts on Private Sector Growth in CARICOM" is the topic of this year's William G. Demas Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be given by Dr. Marshall Hall. Dr. Hall is a former Group Managing Director of Jamaica Producers Group Limited, a position he held from 1979 to 2007. He continues to serve as a member of the Board. He is chairman of the Banana Export Co. Ltd., Eastern Banana Estates Ltd., St. Mary Banana Estates Ltd., the Caribbean Banana Exporters Association and a member of the Council of the University of the West Indies. He was educated at Kingston College; Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hall was Instructor and Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin; Professor at Washington University; Visiting Professor, Makerere University, Uganda; and Professor at the University of the West Indies Department of Management Studies. The 2008 Demas Memorial Lecture will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27 at the Westin Nova Scotian Hotel in the Canadian port city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It forms part of the activities associated with the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank. CDB inaugurated the lecture series in 2000, in honour of the distinguished economist and champion of regional integration, the late William Gilbert Demas, who served as the Bank's second President.