Bilateral exchange between two of the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) more influential states, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica to settle long-outstanding and increasing acrimonious trade and immigration issues would appear to be accelerating in the wake of the recently concluded regional Heads of Government summit in Georgetown.
Reports from the Jamaican capital Kingston, earlier this week, indicated that following a post-summit visit to Jamaica by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, the Foreign Ministry in Kingston was making arrangements for a swift return visit.
At the Georgetown meeting, Caricom Heads, including President David Granger, had signalled the regional movement’s concern that the two member countries get on with the business of settling their simmering differences in order that Caricom could return, collectively, to confronting the more urgent common issues facing the region. Granger had specifically dismissed the notion that the rift between the two member states might lead to a more serious fracture in the movement.
