MONTEGO BAY, Jul 7, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has raised concerns that member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are being “treated with benign neglect” within the wide Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping.
Browne made his statement on the first fulld ay of deliberations at the two-day 49th meeting of CARICOM leaders, while deliberating on the agenda item entitled The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) during the plenary session.
“We ought not to be treated wth benign neglect as how the international community tearts us,” Browne said.
The CSME allow for the free movvement of goods, skills, labour and services across the region and in recent weeks, both St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and St. Lucia’s Opposition Leader, Allen Chastanet, have raised issues regarding the treatment of the countries of the sub-regional grouping within CARICOM.
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