Applewhaite urges donors to support Caricom’s private sector

Lolita Applewhaite

The Second Forum on Donor Co-ordination and Aid Effectiveness was asked by the acting Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite to start looking for ways “to leverage traditional assistance” that will be of advantage to the regional private sector.

“It would certainly not be beyond the remit of this Forum to initiate discussion on how it may be possible to leverage traditional assistance to benefit the development of the regional private sector, including the building of competitiveness,” Applewhaite stated on Tuesday at the opening of the Forum at the CARICOM Secretariat’s Turkeyen, Guyana, Headquarters.
According to a CARICOM release, the one-day Forum saw CARICOM Member States, their International Development Partners (IDP) and the Secretariat in discussion of ways in which more effective results can be attained using the resources provided by the IDPs.

Ambassador Applewhaite, who stressed the