Cariforum ministers charged to ensure projects meet needs of member states

Caricom and Cariforum Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque urged Cariforum ministers to ensure projects agreed upon address challenges faced by member states, in his speech at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Cariforum Council of Ministers held in Grenada on Thursday.

LaRocque said the meeting was timely as some Cariforum member states are still recovering from the global financial crisis, according to a press statement from the Caricom Secretariat. He noted that most Caricom countries, while facing these challenges, also had seen a decline in concessionary funding due to graduation or differentiation.

The Secretary-General further summarized that due to differentiation now being applied by the