St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony will discuss the costs and benefits of the regional integration movement, when he delivers a lecture at the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) on Tuesday.
UWI said that Anthony, will be the third Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leader to deliver an address under its “Distinguished Open Lecture” as part of its CARICOM Leaders Lecture Series, following the current CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Perry Christie of the Bahamas and St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves.
Anthony will speak on the topic “Delivered or Denied: Integration’s Cost and Benefit”.
UWI in a statement quoted Anthony as saying that the story of CARICOM is synonymous with the post-federation evolution of the Anglo-Caribbean.
“Its continued relevance as a regional institution is indivisible from the expectation that it can still deliver enhanced economic viability as one of its primary dividends. With many of the region’s economies experiencing low growth, high debt and dwindling investment, the most important benefits of an integrated economic space may yet remain undelivered,” Anthony said.
In his lecture, Prime Minister Anthony will examine current economic challenges facing the Caribbean and question how CARICOM in its current configuration hopes to realise the primary benefits envisaged by its founding fathers,” UWI said.