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‘Fixed Caricom roaming rate’

Heads of government of the Caribbean Community have begun a meeting in Barbados with Caricom Chair and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley again calling for an overhaul of the governance and funding structures of the regional integration mechanism while also urging her fellow leaders to resist any efforts to divide them.

Miss Mottley was delivering the opening address at the 31st Inter-Sessional Meeting of the heads.

Prime Minister Mottley who recently hinted that the US was using divide and rule tactics in the region urged Caricom states to remain united.

Miss Mottley also recommended a new governance model for Caricom.

The Caricom Chairman who has championed the cause of cheaper telecommunications links between the territories announced a major initiative,  a fixed single Caricom roaming rate to go into effect this year.

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Caricom Secretary-General Ambassador Erwin Laroque spoke of the collaborative efforts in the region to tackle challenges and threats, the latest being the novel coronavirus as he declared there were no such cases in the region to date.

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