CABINET has approved Guyana’s attendance at the Seventh Meeting of the CARICOM Special Technical Team of Investment Policy to be held in Trinidad and Tobago from March 16-17, 2017.

Cabinet Secretary and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, at a post-Cabinet press briefing on Friday at the Ministry of the Presidency said the main purpose of the meeting is to evaluate proposals to review and redesign CARICOM’s investment policy, including the draft CARICOM investment code.

Dr. Hector Butts, Finance Secretary of the Ministry of Finance will be representing Guyana at that meeting.

Cabinet has also approved the attendance of two persons at the 275th sitting of the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) in St. Michael’s, Barbados from March 15-16, 2017.

Harmon said a meeting of the Oversight and Assurance Committee of the Bank will also be held.

Guyana is represented on the Board of Directors and the Assurance and Oversight Committee. Sharon Isaacs, head of the Multilateral Finance Institutions, Division of the Ministry of Finance, and Guyana’s Director on the Bank’s Board, along with Nadira Balram, Economist and Financial Analyst of the Ministry of Finance will attend the meeting, the Cabinet Secretary told reporters.

He noted too that Guyana’s participation in a Caribbean Technical Assistance Centre Sponsored (CARTAC) workshop on Regional Price Statistics, which is being held in Castries, St. Lucia from March 6-10, 2017, had also been approved.

The workshop is a continuation of CARTAC’s emphasis on building capacity regionally in the area of price measurement and the determination of the inflation rate. Shanti Trotman and Shondel Greene, statistics officers of the Ministry of Finance attended the workshop.
Additionally, Guyana will be represented at a Disaster Assessment Methodology Training Course in St. Michael’s, Barbados from March 14-16, by Carlton Semple, Emergency Operations Centre Coordinator of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC).