Caribbean ministers of foreign affairs and trade will convene in Belize tomorrow for the Eighteenth Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States known as CARIFORUM.
Today, in advance of that session, senior officials met at the Radisson, to hammer out technical matters. CARIFORUM, constitutes all the CARICOM Member States, plus Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
It is expected that in the margins of the meeting, the Barbadian and Jamaican foreign ministers will discuss a prickly issue of the movement of Jamaican nationals into Barbados, as one Jamaican woman claims she was sexually assaulted during a search by Barbadian Immigration authorities.
Channel 7
"The impression we are getting is that the Dominican Republic has some reservation in relation to the rule of SG in Caricom and the reporting processor, they seem to believe (that's the impression I am getting) that there is going to be more of a bias in favor of Caricom countries than in fact Dominican Republic. You see we have to have consensus and they are the outsider as it were. The rest of the Caricom countries have no difficulty. Their attempt is to try to match the opinion of the Dominican Republic with that of the Caricom countries; we want to find an accommodation because we all have to agree if we are to move forward."
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