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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is set to travel to Barbados on Wednesday to attend the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) \u00a0Heads of Government conference.<\/p>\n
The conference will take place from February 19-21 under the theme: \u201cStrength in Unity: Forging Caribbean Resilience, Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development.\u201d An opening ceremony will be held on the afternoon of February 19 at the Lord Erskine Sandiford Centre, Bridgetown.<\/p>\n
Heads of Government\u00a0are expected to\u00a0discuss several pressing issues for the Community, including food and nutrition security; climate change and the climate finance agenda;\u00a0as well as\u00a0the ongoing challenges in Haiti; security issues; digital resilience; external relations matters and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)\u00a0among other topics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will be traveling to Barbados on Wednesday to attend the CARICOM Heads of State, Heads of Government conference,\u201d he announced. \u201cAt the conference of heads we will be discussing many issues including free movement. As you know I have been advancing the cause of all people in CARICOM.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to him, integration has to be about everyone benefiting and participating in this project.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am hoping that we can make some progress in Barbados and get the full free movement,\u201d he stated. \u201cI have made it clear to them, because they now want to add pilots and flight attendants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skerrit continued, \u201cI want people to support this because this is just convenient and I believe that if we are truly committed to the CARICOM project, which I believe we are, then we have to show it in a tangible way.\u201d<\/p>\n
He believes the best way to show this is for people to be able to move freely in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd this notion that people are going to flock into one country or another country, the evidence doesn\u2019t show that,\u201d the prime minister remarked. \u201cNone of our economies are strong as it is that people are going to flock to a country for opportunities. We do not have enough people in the Caribbean\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cWe need to be able to have the movement of people so that we all can benefit from the skills, talents, and opportunities that exist within the Caribbean space.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheduled to deliver addresses are the Chairman, Mia Amor Mottley of Barbados; outgoing Chairman, Hon. Dickon Mitchell of Grenada; the new Premier of Montserrat, Reuben T. Meade, and CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr Carla Barnett.<\/p>\n
Special Guests include; Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, and the President of the European Commission, H.E. Ms. Ursula von der Leyen will also address the Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is set to travel to Barbados on Wednesday to attend the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) \u00a0Heads of Government conference. The conference will take place from February 19-21 under the theme: \u201cStrength in Unity: Forging Caribbean Resilience,…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":337098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n