{"id":5905,"date":"2010-03-11T04:53:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T10:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2010-03-11T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:57:11","slug":"summit-time-caricom-leaders-knock-heads-in-dominica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/summit-time-caricom-leaders-knock-heads-in-dominica\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMIT TIME: CARICOM leaders knock heads in Dominica"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5906\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CARICOM-leaders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5906\" title=\"CARICOM leaders\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CARICOM-leaders-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CARICOM-leaders-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/CARICOM-leaders.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARICOM leaders. File photo taken from  www.foreign.gov.bb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders open their\u00a0two-day intersessional summit\u00a0here on\u00a0Thursday with the sorry state of regional economies\u00a0high on the agenda for the first full working day of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is expected to dominate discussions with the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick,\u00a0along with\u00a0the President of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who have\u00a0been specially invited to take part in the Roseau deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the ongoing global economic and financial crisis that has adversely affected the entire 15-nation grouping, CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington is hopeful that\u00a0the talks\u00a0will result in the identification of new and viable approaches to the treatment of economic matters,\u00a0including the crippling debt burden being carried by those member states,\u00a0which do not now qualify for concessionary debt reduction following their graduation from middle income status.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0status of implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is also\u00a0among the main items on the Dominica agenda,\u00a0as well as\u00a0CARICOM\u2019s continued support to Haiti that was devastated by a powerful earthquake on January 12, killing more than 300,000 people and leaving more than one million others homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti&#8217;s President Rene Preval, who met with United States\u00a0President Barack Obama in Washington on Wednesday, \u00a0is expected to\u00a0join in those discussions on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders will also zero in on\u00a0the negotiations for a CARICOM-Canada Trade and Development Agreement; the status of implementation of the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement and the renewal of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.<\/p>\n<p>Consideration will also be given to climate change in the context of the region\u2019s follow-up action to the Copenhagen Summit held last December,\u00a0as well as\u00a0preparations for upcoming summits, including a CARICOM-Brazil Summit in April.<\/p>\n<p>However, at least five leaders are expected to miss out on the deliberations, namely the Prime Ministers\u00a0of Belize, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as the President of Suriname and the Chief\u00a0Minister of Montserrat even though no official reason has yet been given for their absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders open their\u00a0two-day intersessional summit\u00a0here on\u00a0Thursday with the sorry state of regional economies\u00a0high on the agenda for the first full working day of the meeting. 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