PM Stuart: Barbados will not leave CARICOM

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart is giving the assurance that Barbados will not be following in Britain’s footstep by breaking away from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Though pointing out that the regional integration movement “usually references the integration movement in Europe as a template”, Stuart said Barbados, sometimes referred to as Little England, had no intention of mimicking the former Mother Country, which is ending its membership in the European Union (EU) after last June’s Brexit vote.

“Barbados over the years has been known as Little England and I just want for the assurance of people here, that there is no intention on the part of Little England to do in CARICOM what ‘Big England’ has decided to do in the EU,” Stuart told a gathering at the residence of the EU Ambassador to Barbados last evening.

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