Bermuda will be able to beat the drum for Caribbean countries when it hosts a global economic forum, Premier Ewart Brown said yesterday.

He told a Caricom meeting of government leaders in Dominica that the Island would host the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forum on tax information exchange and transparency in 2011.

Dr. Brown said the conference would provide the ideal opportunity to "bring to bear our jurisdictional successes in the area of sound financial regulation".

He pointed out that Bermuda was the first country to be promoted to the OECD's "white list" of tax transparent countries.