Chairman of CARICOM Mia Amor Mottley in her New Year’s Day Message has outlined a number of plans for the regional body including removing obstacles to passport-free travel.
Mottley, who assumes the chair from this month, said CARICOM is duty bound to continue the integration journey across the Community “whether as a collective of the whole or in twos and threes”.
“. . . Many of us have demonstrated what true integration really means, in spite of the obstacles of bureaucracy that we sometimes confront in our leadership class as we go about our ordinary business.
“But at the same time, we recognise that the regional integration movement is very much a relay race. Sometimes we are hard on ourselves, expecting to achieve overnight that which requires patience and careful nurturing over generations,” the Prime Minister of Barbados stated. (BA)
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