Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has gone on record as saying that the current ongoing creation of a regional food terminal on that island could go a long way towards realizing the key regional objective of reducing extra-regional food imports by 25% by 2025.
Last year, Barbados and Guyana were tagged with the key responsibility for the setting up of a regional food terminal which is expected to function as a fallback facility to help respond to food security emergencies in the region. Mottley told a recent gathering in the Barbados capital, Bridgetown, which included Dominican Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerritt, that the region’s investment in such a facility will make possible the movement of food from countries that pursue large scale agriculture. Guyana has already been tagged as a key cog in the Caribbean’s food security wheel given the scale of agricultural production in the country.