As CARICOM Heads meet today in Trinidad and Tobago for the 45th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, President of the African Import and Export Bank, Professor Benedict Oramah is optimistic that all countries will sign the trade agreement with the bank that would see the already assigned US$1.5B doubled if they do.
“I believe that Trinidad and Jamaica, they understand the benefits of joining its brothers and sisters in getting into this relationship. What we need to do is to extend the engagements we have had with the other countries that have signed the agreements. I am planning on doing that in the coming months. I am planning to visit Jamaica and I am planning to visit Trinidad and Tobago. But on top of that, I am aware that under the framework of the CARICOM, engagements are also ongoing with them,” the Afreximbank President told the Stabroek News in an interview on the sidelines of the bank’s recently concluded 30th anniversary conference, in Accra, Ghana. “…. That is the kind of engagement we will be having with Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. And we believe that before the end of the year, we would have everybody joined so that we can truly implement the kind of trading and investment relations we want,” he added.
