Golding to attend CARICOM summit

Kingston (CMC):

Prime Minister Bruce Golding, the immediate past chairman of Caribbean Community (CARICOM), leaves here on Wednesday for Grenada to attend the CARICOM Intersessional summit and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) subcommittee meeting.

A government statement said that Golding will attend the CSME meeting on Thursday, before joining his regional colleagues for the two-day summit on Friday.

The CSME subcommittee comprises Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

The meeting agenda includes the progress in free movement so far, public education and the strategic plan for regional development.

"The subcommittee is also expected to address follow-up action to an appraisal that was done on the readiness of members to implement the CSME regime. The appraisal was conducted by the CARICOM Secretariat in 2009, and Jamaica was found to be compliant," the statement said.