CARIBBEAN-TRADE-Caribbean and US trade officials to meet in Guyana.

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and United States officials will meet here on Friday to discuss trade and investment issues, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat has announced.

It said that the ninth meeting of the CARICOM-United States Trade and Investment Council will also discuss agricultural sustainability, food and nutrition security as well as matters pertaining to the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), trade in services, trade facilitation and good regulatory practices.

Ambassadors Jayme White (left) and Felix Gregoire (File Photo)

'The two sides are expected to review the CBI, the US trade preference programmes for the region and explore ways in which to enhance the trade and investment relationship between the United States and CARICOM,' the Secretariat said in a statement.

It said as CARICOM accelerates efforts to achieve the goal of 25 per cent reduction in food imports by the year 2025, the discussion on agricultural sustainability and food and nutrition security would highlight the use of biotechnology and other tools to promote climate resilience in agriculture, and...