Determined to meet the March 31st deadline for the free movement of nationals within the bloc, Caricom’s Legal Affairs Committee last week met and signed off on the draft document so that Heads can finalise it when they meet again this week.
“… The heads of government will meet on the 15th of March with the hope that we can sign off in time for the deadline given in Trinidad of the 31st of March, for the full free movement of people,” Barbados Prime Minister and Head of the Reconstituted Intergovernmental Task Force (ITGF) Mia Mottley said when the 46th Heads of Government Conference closed in Guyana two weeks ago.
“People have the right to move now for six months without question. What we are talking about is removing that six months’ constraint, but we equally have to understand that there are the minimum rights that are guaranteed to our citizens when they move from one country to another,” she added.
