Jagdeo for CARICOM integration

Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo said the regional integration movement remains strong despite the global financial crisis.



He said relations between CARICOM members are as strong as ever before.



Jagdeo said there would always be differences between countries as a result of competing priorities.



However, he said this should not hamper the integration movement.



Last week Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding commented on a number of alternate regional partnerships that served to destabilize CARICOM.



He pointed to the proposed political union of Trinidad and Tobago with the eastern Caribbean as one of these challenges.