ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Oct 1, CMC -Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell Tuesday said the Caribbean provides a unique opportunity to turn the tide on what is viewed as a sargassum problem into a solution that can have ripple effects to all of the stakeholders who have so far been negatively impacted.
Mitchell told delegates from the Caribbean, Central and South America, attending the two-day second European Union-Caribbean Global Gateway conference on sargassum, said the idea to host this conference bloomed out of the fourth Small islands Developing States (SIDS) conference held in Antigua earlier this year.
“I’m happy that we have been able to pull it off in relatively a short period of time, despite the intervening challenges that occurred,” Mitchell said in an obvious reference to the damage caused by Hurricane Beryl when it hit several Caribbean countries including Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines in July.
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