CARICOM SG calls for more affordable disaster insurance

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Irwin LaRocque wants the cost of natural disaster insurance to be more affordable.

According to a CARICOM release, this statement was made by Ambassador LaRocque on Tuesday when he spoke at a panel at the “Insurance Colloquium: Insurance in the age of climate change” at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Barbados. The panel was a collaboration between the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Barbados.