KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Sept 3, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Tuesday said he is hoping that by the next meeting of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders a decision will be taken on the issue of contingency liability within the CARICCOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) imitative.
Barbados will be the next venue for the regional leaders meeting in February next year and Gonsalves, speaking in Parliament, recalled that he had observed that “it is ironic that a country, one of the larger ones, which is likely to benefit most from the freedom of movement of labour, was the one which was most concerned with restricting the extent of contingent liabilities.
“In other words…their persons were likely to move out of their country and one would normally expect that they will have a greater interest in having the contingency liabilities enlarged, but that was not the case, even though reasonably, fewer persons would be entering their own country for the purpose of work so on…”
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