Progress on single market and economy being hindered by inactive regional organs

Freundel Stuart

Barbados’ Prime Minister Freundel Stuart yesterday underscored the need for key regional organs to meet as intended in order to support Caricom’s push towards realising the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME).

“We made an intervention… to explain that one of the biggest problems we have in terms of the functioning of the organs of the community… that would facilitate the achievement of the goals we have set for ourselves, as far as the Single Market and Economy is concerned, is that some of the organs on which you are relying do not even meet,” Stuart told reporters at the end of the first half of yesterday’s session of the 37th meeting of Caricom Heads of Government at the Pegasus Hotel, in Georgetown.