Further indications that the Caribbean is set to significantly strengthen its relations with Africa emerged recently with the announcement that Trinidad and Tobago had dispatched a ‘delegation’ comprising twenty-one private and public sector companies to Ghana on a trade mission. The group, according to a Trinidad Guardian report, has been handed the assignment of “expanding business opportunities beyond the traditional CARICOM /Latin and North American markets.” The development follows what has been, in recent times, unmistakable signs that the Caribbean is ready to ‘change gears’ in terms of the timbre of relations with Africa. Ghana, it seems, has been identified by CARICOM member countries as a ‘staging post’ for the wider initiative.
