Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, along with fellow Governors of the Caribbean Region on Wednesday attended a meeting with World Bank Managing Director, Axel Van Trotsenburg, held under the theme “Road to Recovery: Tools for Building Back Better in the Caribbean”.
A Ministry of Finance release on Wednesday explained that the session focussed on the priorities of the Caribbean and the ways which the World Bank could support economic recovery and resilience. The attendees were able to hear directly from the management of the World Bank of its approach to regional issues, and in particular, “issues of recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerability to economic and climate shocks, as well as strengthening debt sustainability.”