The meeting will take place under the motto: Strength is in unity: forging Caribbean resilience, inclusive growth and sustainable development.
According to the agenda, the heads of government will discuss several urgent issues for the Community, including food and nutritional security, climate change and the climate financing agenda, and the current challenges in Haiti.
They will also discuss security issues, digital resilience, foreign affairs and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy.
The leaders will debate other issues, such as maritime and air transportation and reparations.
CARICOM is an international organization to strengthen relations in the Caribbean region; its headquarters is in Georgetown, Guyana, and was founded in 1973.
Full members are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, while the British Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands are associate members.
CARICOM’s main objectives are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, as well as to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably distributed, and to coordinate foreign policy.
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