A senior official in the local Ministry of Agriculture has gone on the attack against non-tariff barriers instituted by some Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that are working counter to efforts to realise regional food security, according to Monday’s edition of the Jamaica Gleaner.
The Gleaner reported Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture here George Jervis as alluding to “the arbitrary use, as well as abuse, of non-tariff barriers as a major hindrance to the growth of intraregional trade.” He was speaking at Jamaica’s Denbigh Show- the country’s largest agriculture industrial and food show. “Jervis thinks the time has come for these and other barriers to be reviewed with the goal of dismantling them in the interest of regional economic development,” the Gleaner reported.
“Those will have to be addressed, and you have to look at the reasons given for
