#WIMNEWS CARICOM STARTS PLANS TO REMOVE TRADE BARRIERS WITH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES 🏝 ⓦ🏝〽️ A representative group of #CARICOM Heads of Government from #Antigua and #Barbuda, #Barbados, #Belize, #Dominica, #Guyana, #Montserrat and #Trinidad and #Tobago and other high-level representatives from The #Bahamas, #Grenada, #Jamaica, #StVincent and the #Grenadines, #Suriname and regional and international institutions met in Georgetown, #Guyana at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on May 19 and 20, 2022 as participants in the “Agri-Investment Forum and Expo: Investing in Vision 25 by 2025”, organised by the Government of Guyana in collaboration with the CARICOM Secretariat. The Group took the opportunity of the important and timely Forum to discuss the current grave global situation of the shortages and high prices of imported food; the shortage and increased prices of fertilizers and other agricultural inputs; and the severe problems affecting transportation and supply. They noted with great concern that the member states of CARICOM have been deeply impacted by these developments which have resulted in a dramatic increase in the cost of food, exposing still further the region’s food insecurity due to its vulnerability to external influences. The Group recognized that, within CARICOM, member states have the capacity to attain a high level of #foodsecurity for the #caribbean Community as a whole, provided that urgent action is taken to establish sustainable machinery, and to adhere to the terms of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. Via @newsroomguyana #wayforward #agriforum #tradebarriers (at Georgetown, Guyana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1ywEPNEIk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
