President plugs fund at CARICOM meeting
Friday, February 10, 2006
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has urged other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government to urgently move to implement the Regional Development Fund to push the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) said he yesterday, at the 17th Inter-sessional Conference of CARICOM heads at the Hilton in Trinidad and Tobago, flagged the implementation of the fund as a necessity for the success of the CSME.
President Jagdeo, in his intervention, called on heads to urgently settle issues and details surrounding the RDF by technical and ministerial officials but said the time has come for heads themselves to settle the outstanding issues, the agency reported.
He noted that there have been prolonged discussions and reports on the RDF and there is now need for immediate action, GINA said.
The fund is critical because it will provide an important financial mechanism for ensuring an equitable development and successful regional integration process, it said, noting that it is expected to provide financial or technical assistance to disadvantaged countries, regions and sectors.
Guyana has been identified to benefit from funding to be provided by the RDF.
The President’s intervention, GINA said, may have placed the issue on today’s caucus for discussion by the heads.
The agency said he yesterday also raised the issue of the free movement of skills provided for within the framework of the Single Market, noting the maltreatment meted out to Guyanese and the undesirable working conditions that prevail in work schemes in some member states of the community.
GINA said he called on member states to create within the CARICOM Secretariat a database where various complaints made on such issues could be monitored and investigated to establish a level of accountability on this issue.
President Jagdeo also highlighted growing concerns about the region’s security, pointing once again to the technical reports and discussions held without many concrete initiatives implemented to date, the agency reported. In this respect, it said, he mooted the idea of a regional intelligence-sharing mechanism.
Mr Jagdeo also met St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves on the expansion of Guyana’s access to his country’s rice market.
It was indicated that a team from St Vincent and the Grenadines will visit Guyana next week to follow up on the discussion initiated, GINA said.
Copyright GNNL November 2005
Friday, February 10, 2006
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has urged other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government to urgently move to implement the Regional Development Fund to push the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) said he yesterday, at the 17th Inter-sessional Conference of CARICOM heads at the Hilton in Trinidad and Tobago, flagged the implementation of the fund as a necessity for the success of the CSME.
President Jagdeo, in his intervention, called on heads to urgently settle issues and details surrounding the RDF by technical and ministerial officials but said the time has come for heads themselves to settle the outstanding issues, the agency reported.
He noted that there have been prolonged discussions and reports on the RDF and there is now need for immediate action, GINA said.
The fund is critical because it will provide an important financial mechanism for ensuring an equitable development and successful regional integration process, it said, noting that it is expected to provide financial or technical assistance to disadvantaged countries, regions and sectors.
Guyana has been identified to benefit from funding to be provided by the RDF.
The President’s intervention, GINA said, may have placed the issue on today’s caucus for discussion by the heads.
The agency said he yesterday also raised the issue of the free movement of skills provided for within the framework of the Single Market, noting the maltreatment meted out to Guyanese and the undesirable working conditions that prevail in work schemes in some member states of the community.
GINA said he called on member states to create within the CARICOM Secretariat a database where various complaints made on such issues could be monitored and investigated to establish a level of accountability on this issue.
President Jagdeo also highlighted growing concerns about the region’s security, pointing once again to the technical reports and discussions held without many concrete initiatives implemented to date, the agency reported. In this respect, it said, he mooted the idea of a regional intelligence-sharing mechanism.
Mr Jagdeo also met St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves on the expansion of Guyana’s access to his country’s rice market.
It was indicated that a team from St Vincent and the Grenadines will visit Guyana next week to follow up on the discussion initiated, GINA said.
Copyright GNNL November 2005
