Delayed action on integration is hindrance to progress

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Caricom leaders at the Twenty-Eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Georgetown yesterday. This Ministry of the Presidency photo was taken on the lawns of State House. Seated from right are Caricom Secretary General, Irwin LaRocque; Barbadian Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart; Grenadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell; President David Granger; Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit; new Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse; Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley is standing fifth from right. Sixth from right is Antigua’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne. Jamaica was represented by Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith (standing third from right). Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge is standing at right.
Caricom leaders at the Twenty-Eighth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government in Georgetown yesterday. This Ministry of the Presidency photo was taken on the lawns of State House. Seated from right are Caricom Secretary General, Irwin LaRocque; Barbadian Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart; Grenadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell; President David Granger; Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit; new Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse; Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley is standing fifth from right. Sixth from right is Antigua’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne. Jamaica was represented by Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith (standing third from right). Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge is standing at right.

Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit yesterday urged that Caricom member states vigorously pursue the issues that would advance the regional integration movement, while saying it is a necessity in an increasingly hostile international environment.

Skerrit, the outgoing Chairman of Caricom, was speaking at the opening of the 28th inter-sessional meeting of the Conference of Caricom Heads of Government at the Marriott Hotel, where he pointed out that rising nationalism across the globe, supported by populist movements,