The recently installed Joe Biden administration in Washington is being pushed to provide a multi-million dollar financing initiative to assist Barbados and the various other Caribbean territories with their post-COVID economic regeneration activities.
Reference was made to the issue of US availability to the region, financial assistance to the tune of Bds. $ 200 million to help Barbados kickstart and some of the other territories currently afflicted by their respective COVID-19 related economic cases last week by Prime. Guyanese-born Invest Caribbean CEO (CEO), Dr Felicia Persaud, during a virtual discussion during her participation in a forum on strengthening US-Caribbean trade and investment relations under the Biden administration. The forum was sponsored by the Shridath Ramphal Center.