Regional data administration specialists were told at a just concluded High Level Forum on Statistics that the Caribbean continues to run the risk of making flawed decisions in key areas of its development on account of deficiencies in information at their disposal.
According to a press statement from the Caricom Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official Crispin Gregoire who attended the forum in Grenada, had opined that the Caribbean was being disadvantaged by not having the most up-to-date information to guide decision-making.
“This, he said, in turn, limits the development of a framework that is relevant to the Caribbean context,” the statement said.
The UNDP official told the forum that Caricom risked a repeat of the case of the Millennium Develop-ment Goals (MDGs) where,