Barbados PM wants greater movement towards CSME

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Tuesday warned that the future of multi-lateralism is being threatened at the "very time it is needed more than ever and urged Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to put aside their differences and further develop the much heralded CARICOM Single Market & Economy (CSME).
The CSME allows for the free movement of goods, skills, labour and services across the 15-member grouping and Mottley, addressing the two day CARICOM intercessional meeting, said that the two-day special CARICOM meeting on the CSME in Trinidad and Tobago last December had achieved much in a way of putting the initiative back on the front burner.
She said small states such as those in region "will only survive, not just economically, but in the world of diplomacy in the context of strengthening democracy and that more than ever we need to stay together whether it is in fighting the European Union with respect to the blacklisting issue...whether it is in respect to our position on Venezuela which ironically has become predominately the mainstream position of the world in that six weeks ago people were not calling for dialogue."