Asokore Beckles

Media

Press, interviews, and speaking.

A selection of coverage across Caribbean outlets, plus speeches and interviews.

Video & audio

On the record.

Selected speeches, keynotes, and broadcast appearances.
SKNT&LU 2023 Annual Conference flyer

Conference flyer · tap to enlarge

Keynote · 30 October 2023

Saint Kitts Nevis Trades & Labour Union — 2023 Annual Conference

Keynote address on labour, fiscal space, and economic resilience in the Caribbean, delivered to delegates of the SKNT&LU. Full recording in two parts below.

Saint Kitts Nevis Trades & Labour Union

SKNT&LU 2023 Annual Conference — Keynote (Part 1)

Keynote address at the Saint Kitts Nevis Trades and Labour Union's 2023 Annual Conference on regional labour, fiscal policy, and economic resilience.

Saint Kitts Nevis Trades & Labour Union

SKNT&LU 2023 Annual Conference — Keynote (Part 2)

Continuation of the 2023 SKNT&LU keynote — policy recommendations and the Caribbean workforce.

Instagram Live

Miracle Mondays with Rae Lashea

Conversation on economic resilience, labour, and civic responsibility in the Caribbean.

Press

In the press.

Coverage across Caribbean outlets, regional labour and economic bodies.
  • Barbados Today

    Salary Restoration — NUPW General Treasurer

    As General Treasurer of the National Union of Public Workers, Asokore Beckles speaks to Barbados Today on salary restoration and the fiscal space for public-sector wages.

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  • Nation News Barbados

    $19.2m dip in imports

    Economist Asokore Beckles on the structural drivers of the Barbadian trade balance.

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  • Nation News Barbados

    NUPW man joins political race

    Coverage of Asokore Beckles' selection as a prospective candidate for the Barbados Labour Party.

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  • Caribbean Congress of Labour

    Remarks at the CCL research methodology workshop

    Remarks delivered in role as Assistant General Secretary.

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  • Princeton LAE Archive

    Vote Team NUPW — Asokore Beckles for General Treasurer

    Campaign ephemera from the 2017 NUPW elections, archived in Princeton's Latin American and Caribbean collection.

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Archive

Press archive — 2014 Nation News feature.

Two-page feature carrying Asokore Beckles' analysis of the Barbadian trade deficit.

Speaking

Lectures, panels, and keynotes.

  • SKNT&LU 2023 Annual Conference — Keynote

    Labour, fiscal space, and economic resilience in the Caribbean

    · Saint Kitts & Nevis
  • CCL Research Methodology Workshop

    Opening remarks as Assistant General Secretary

    · Caribbean Congress of Labour

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