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Nov 12, 2008 News
REGIONAL TECHNOCRATS responsible for dealing with the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) programme on free movement of nationals are scheduled to meet in Guyana for a two-day meeting, starting tomorrow.
Slated to take place at the CARICOM Secretariat, the meeting comes at a time of growing concerns that the issue of intra-regional free movement of nationals, in particular holders of approved skills certificates to seek employment, is becoming increasingly problematic and suffers from lack of priority attention.
It is felt that unless the issue of skilled nationals is detached from ongoing controversies relating to official discretion in approval of normal work permits for short- or long-term employment, then it could well result in negative consequences for the community’s flagship project – the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Key officials of the Barbados-based CSME Unit, which is accountable to the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown, will be among the regional representatives at the meeting that will consider free movement issues consistent with the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
There have been growing complaints that for all the official assurances often given, CARICOM nationals continue to experience unpleasantness, and worse, on arrival at ports of entry, even if for pleasure or business, and are grilled as if they had arrived with ulterior motives. (RS)
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