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Jagdeo for Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Ecuador

Jul 30, 2009 News

President Bharrat Jagdeo leaves Guyana today on a three-country mission that will see him looking to jump start a process to seek aid for Caribbean countries affected by the global financial crisis, and expand the regional integration bloc CARICOM.
In the next week and a half the President will be in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. He President made the announcement of his visits at a Press Conference yesterday.
Jagdeo will first visit Jamaica at the invitation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding. He has been invited to participate in African Emancipation celebrations on the island, and also to address Sunday the Denbigh Agricultural Show, one of the biggest agricultural shows in the Caribbean.
Also in Jamaica, he will convene a meeting of the political task force he chairs. Jagdeo said that by Monday he hopes the Task Force will be able to have a clear idea of the extent to which the global financial meltdown has affected each member state of CARICOM and to determine their short-term requirements for dealing with the crisis.
The President said that the task force should also be able to decide on how to raise resources for the countries negatively affected by the financial crisis.
The agreement to set up the task force was agreed to when CARICOM heads met in Georgetown early this month. The other CARICOM heads appointed to the task force are Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Barbados David Thompson, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Manning and Jamaica’s Golding.
From Jamaica, the President is expected to make a state visit to the Dominican Republic. The President said he would use the opportunity to discuss with the island’s leaders its application to join CARICOM.
Under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) the Caribbean has signed with the European Union, CARICOM is expected to extend the trade arrangements of the Community to the Dominican Republic in the trade agreements.
After the Dominican Republic, the President will travel to Ecuador to attend a meeting of the Union of South American Nations.

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