BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 5, CMC – The chief executive officer of the CARICOM Private Sector Organization (CPSO), Dr. Patrick Antoine, Tuesday said that the Caribbean could benefit from having trading relations with other global countries that its main traditional partner, the United State, but that it would require the region putting in pace a number of initiatives.
Speaking during a World Bank Group (WBG) sponsored online webinar, titled “Rethinking Regional Integration for Resilient and Inclusive Growth in the Caribbean,” Antoine, acknowledge the work that the regional private sector grouping has been doing with the Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM)Secretariat over the last two to three years.
The WBG said that the webinar provides a platform for dialogue on advancing regional integration across the Caribbean and Antoine said much of the work over the past months have focused on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) that allows for the free movement of goods, skills and labour across the 15-member regional grouping.
He said it was also imporant to locate the CSME having regard to what’s happened with the America first policies and giving the member states of the region an opportunity to source more cost efficiently and otherwise imports that are critical to not only livelihoods in the region but also to the tourism sector.
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