Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meet in Grenada later this week for the annual inter-sessional summit, and St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas believes the issues on the agenda require timely discussion, analysis, and action.
“Some of these issues are new and some are ongoing, but in need of executive oversight and refinement. What they all share, however, is a centrality to CARICOM’s overall quest for cohesion and stability,” said Dr Douglas on his regular weekly radio programme “Ask the Prime Minister” yesterday.
He said the issues include developments in Haiti, the Permanent Committee of CARICOM Ambassadors, the Caribbean Court of Justice, British American and CLICO and the constitutional dimensions of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Informed sources said the financial stability of the region would allow for further discussions on the CLICO/British American insurance issue and efforts to get failing companies back on a sound financial footing.
There are also proposals from the Council for National Security and Law enforcement, for financing the region’s Crime and Security agenda. Health and Human Development, priorities for dealing with climate change are also down for discussion during the February 25 to 26 summit.
The summit is being preceded by a meeting of the Council of Ministers followed a day later of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on the CARICOM Single Market Economy (CSME) that will be chaired by Barbados Prime Minister Fruendel Stewart.
Prior to the opening of the summit on Friday, the region’s foreign ministers will meet. (CMC)
