CARICOM Chair slams US for excluding Cuba, Venezuela from Americas Summit

Chair of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Belize John Briceño (CARICOM photo)

CARICOM Chairman, Belizean PM John Briceño on Thursday hammered the United States over its exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from the Summit of the Americas and called the long-running American embargo against Havana “an affront to humanity”.

Speaking at the plenary session of the 9th Summit of the Americas, Briceño also appealed for urgent assistance to the Caribbean region on debt relief, climate change and access to concessionary funding.