Upcoming Caricom heads meeting to focus on private sector involvement

The 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Governments of Caricom will be centred on the lack of private sector involvement, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

At a news conference on her ministry’s 2014 plans yesterday, Rodrigues-Birkett stated that it was “shameful” that to date Caricom lacks formal involvement of the private sector when having open dialogue about trade.

She said a formal agreement had to be made and that Caricom countries had to