It is now left to President Bharrat Jagdeo and Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding to find a solution to the rice stalemate between the two countries, following Caricom’s Council for Trade and Economic Development’s (COTED) non-approval of Jamaica’s request for a waiver on the Common External Tariff (CET).
Caricom Assistant Secre-tary- General, Ambas-sador Irwin La Rocque at the closure of the recent COTED meet in Antigua and Barbuda announced that the heads would hold consultations on the issue and then inform Secretary-General Edwin Carrington on the outcome.
