Extensive dialogue to accelerate the region’s response to pressing issues, such as food and energy security, climate financing, and integration of regional markets are on the agenda for discussion at the 43rd Regular Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which will begin today.
The Heads of Government meeting is being held Paramaribo, Suriname and will conclude on Tuesday.
At a news conference yesterday at the Suriname Presidential Palace, Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi, who is the new Chairman of CARICOM, gave an overview of the agenda when responding to questions about whether the region will be discussing solutions to the energy crisis currently gripping many nations.