Barbados To Host 31st CARICOM Intersessional Heads of Government Meeting
(Barbados Government Information Services Press Release) CARICOM
Chairman, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, will welcome fellow heads of
government to Barbados for the 31st Intersessional Conference of Heads
of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), from 18-19 February.
Regional leaders will have a packed agenda during the two-day
summit, which will be held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two
Mile Hill, St. Michael.
The areas to be examined include the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME); the Report on the Commission on the Economy; Engagement with the private sector, labour and civil society; CARICOM Advocacy Against Blacklisting, De-Risking and Withdrawal of Correspondent Banking; and Supporting CARICOM Resilience and – Update on Matters of Importance for Science and Technology. They will also examine the recommendations from the 25th Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on External Negotiations.
In caucus, CARICOM Heads of Government will try to find consensus on
security matters and border issues between Belize and Guatemala, and
Guyana and Venezuela.
Regional leaders are keen to forge stronger links with Africa, and
they will also take time to discuss their first CARICOM-African Union
Summit to be held in June, as well as the 15th Meeting of the United
Nations Conference for Trade and Development, (UNCTAD), which takes
place in Barbados from 18-25 October.
Another key highlight for CARICOM leaders will be the opportunity to
bolster multilateralism through an exchange with a special guest.
The Intersessional summit will close with the ratification of a
number of decisions made at the two-day caucus, the adoption of the
Communiqué, and setting the date for the 41st Regular Meeting of the
Conference of Heads of Government in July in St Vincent and the
Grenadines.
The Caribbean Community has 15 member states – Antigua and Barbuda,
The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti,
Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and
the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. It also has five
associate members – Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman
Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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