Charges of foot-dragging by the vast majority of Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments in pursuit of their commitments towards the fulfilment of the Jagdeo Initiative on Agriculture in the region have been raised by Antigua’s Agriculture Minister Hilson Baptiste.
According to Baptiste, while community member countries were individually assigned responsibility for undertaking the ten binding constraints to accelerating growth in the region’s agriculture sector and articulating the ten necessary interventions, his is the only Agriculture Ministry in the region that has completed