The ground-breaking June 5-15 trade and investment mission to selected African countries by the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) and the anticipated August 4 launch of the Africa EXIM Bank in Barbados points to an increasingly aggressive regional posture in the matter of upping the level of trade and economic ties with the African continent. Indeed, it appears that the regional business community is beginning to see the pattern of their development-related linkages from a new and decidedly enlightening perspective.
