PM Mottley Meets With Regional Private Sector

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has underscored the importance of the regional private sector becoming a type of associate institution of CARICOM, saying it would be good for the Caribbean.

Ms. Mottley expressed this view recently when she met at Ilaro Court with the Regional Private Sector’s Chief Executive Officers to discuss the establishment of a regional body and implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

The Prime Minister said it was ironic that after more than four decades of CARICOM’S existence, formal steps were now being taken “assiduously” to ensure the labour movement and the regional private sector’s formal participation in the regional organisation.

“As I indicated when we met in Port-of-Spain last year, it is impossible for us to see the growth of the regional economies and the creation of a single economy without understanding how best we can work with the [regional] entities….

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