Just days after Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) president, Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, had expressed skepticism regarding the likelihood of Caribbean countries realising the 2030 time frame for the achievement of the United Nations-designated Social Development Goals (SDG), the government of Trinidad and Tobago has publicly stated its commitment to attaining those goals, the hurdles placed in its way by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic notwithstanding.
Last week, the twin-island republic’s Minister of Planning and Development, Camille Robinson-Regis, used the July 6 – 15 virtually convened 2021 high-level forum of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to renew the country’s commitment to the realisation of those goals within the stipulated time frame.