(Barbados Government Information Service) Barbados is moving ahead with advancing elements of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, including free access to public schools for CARICOM students.
This means that all CARICOM nationals under the age of 16, who reside in Barbados, will be afforded access to government nursery, primary and secondary schools without being charged tuition fees.
On the margins of the Tenth Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Committee of Ambassadors held in Guyana, on Thursday, 21 November 2019,
the CARICOM Secretariat launched the ‘I AM CARICOM’ Communications
Campaign.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The timeframes in the plan are as follows:
READ MOREWarren Smith
Good evening:
Let me start by commending Prime Minister Motley for spearheading this very timely initiative.
Last year, while attending your first
Intercessional Heads of Government Meeting as Prime Minister, you
declared your Government’s unequivocal commitment to the regional
integration cause and Barbados’ readiness to play a full and active part
in moving the process forward.
His Excellency Mr. David Comissiong, Ambassador of Barbados to CARICOM;
Ms. Andrea Power, Coordinator, Regional Cooperation and Integration of the Caribbean Development Bank;
Assistant Secretary General, Trade and Economic Integration, Mr. Joseph Cox and other CARICOM Secretariat staff;
Honourable Vance Amory, Senior Minister, St Kitts and Nevis;
Mr. Wayne Wesley, Registrar of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)
Representatives of Regional Organisations and Institutions;
Representatives of the Private and Public Sectors.
Enhancing regional air and maritime transportation and further advancing
By Elizabeth Morgan – The European Union (EU) Summit addressing Brexit held on October 18 has come and gone with no UK withdrawal agreement and no date for another summit. While the EU has said that not enough progress was made, the view from the British side is that the agreement is 95 per cent complete.
The outstanding five per cent, however, is so difficult that a no-deal outcome is still a very strong possibility. Intense negotiations are ongoing in London and Brussels in the effort to make the UK’s withdrawal a reality by March 31, 2019.
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has taken steps to accelerate the use of the measures under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The Conference of Heads of Government in July 2017, approved the Implementation Plan for the CSME 2017-2019 which coincides with the CARICOM Strategic Plan (2015-2019).
The Plan is a comprehensive document which details the level of implementation of measures called for by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas or decisions taken by Community Organs.
CARICOM Finance and Planning Ministers were meeting in Barbados Tuesday to advance a number of development initiatives geared towards enhancing the use and operation of the Single Market and Economy.
It is the sixth Special Meeting of the Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) and was convened under the Chairmanship of Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mr Gaston Browne.