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Prime Minister Gaston Browne is urging regional countries to collaborate more to ensure the region is fully served both in maritime and air transportation, saying it is necessary for further deepening the regional integration process.<\/p>

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Browne, who is attending the 43rd Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit that ends here later on Tuesday, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that it is critical to the issues of connectivity that both maritime and air transportation is adequately addressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t sustain an integration movement if you can\u2019t move goods and people effectively and that has been a major problem with the integration movement from since its inception,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes the summit here would \u201ccome up with a new model for air transportation one in which we can sustain|.<\/p>

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He said he was looking towards a model \u2018to which member states can contribute, so you would have a model of shared burden and shared benefit.<\/p>

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\u201cIn the past we have seen situations where some countries have been loafers, they benefit from the services but they do not wish to contribute. You cannot sustain air transportation or maritime transportation for that matter on that type of model in which some pay and others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Browne told CMC that an examination of both the air and maritime transportation needs of the region \u201cthey cannot be sustained by any single member state.<\/p>

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\u201cSo it requires a collective effort and it requires collective burden,\u201d he said, noting that Barbados has already indicated it has done some work in that area \u201cclearly they would have to broaden it to include all of CARICOM and to provide the kind of maritime transportation mechanism which we can move goods and even people throughout the region\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, the chairman of the CARICOM Commission on the Economy, Professor Avinash Persaud, said that Barbados and some of its CARICOM neighbours could be inching closer to having a fast ferry system that would see faster and more affordable transportation of cargo and people and help put a dent in the region\u2019s food import bill.<\/p>

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However, the initial investment is estimated to be a major one \u2013 in the region of about US$100 million \u2013 and the plan could take close to two years to materialise.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are currently in negotiations with some potential private partners who will deliver that if governments provide some support, but it is early days yet,\u201d Persaud said, noting that the discussions included examining the possibility of two specially-built vessels.<\/p>\n

One passenger vessel would be similar to the one that operates between Port of Spain and Tobago, while the other would be a smaller one to transport cargo.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Browne told CMC that the region could benefit from the research, Caribbean countries could import food from Guyana, Suriname and even Brazil \u201cthat would be far cheaper than the foods we are importing from North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo in terms of keeping the price of food down it is important that we establishment maritime transportation, reliable and sustainable\u2026,\u201d he said, adding that he believes the region needs \u201ccombo assets\u201d that could both transport people and goods \u201cand by so doing you will be able to move people and goods more effectively within the region and certainly to sustain our integration movement.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is a critical aspect of sustaining our integration movement. I would say that within recent times there has been heighten discussions and greater commitments coming from the leaders,\u201d Browne said, making reference to the situation in Guyana where President Irfaan Ali would have developed an Agri-plan for the region aimed at reducing the import bill by 25 per cent by 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pretty sure that the opportunities that would be created for Suriname and Guyana in particular would be enormous, \u201che said give that these countries have a lot of land, fresh water and capable of producing much food for the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not be relying on what is most exclusively imports from North America when we have countries within the integration movement that can supply us,\u201d Browne said, giving as an example, the importation of water melons to his country, which would be much cheaper even with a 100 per cent mark up for transportation etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we need to unlock those opportunities or the potential of these countries to supply the rest of the Caribbean and only how it will be achieved is if we establish reliable and sustainable air and sea transportation.<\/p>\n

\u2018Again it requires an all of CARICOM effort in which all the countries come together and subsidise these assets \u2026because generally speaking because of the small population size, you will find, especially for an airline it is difficult to turn a profit.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it will require some level of subsidy, but when you look at the economic gains and even the social gains, it is a public good to have reliable and sustainable regional transportation and therefore the countries of the region should not hesitate to provide whatever subsidy is necessary,\u201d Prime Minister Browne told CMC.<\/p>\n

Photo caption: Prime Minister Gaston Browne being interviewed on the CMC\/DIME \u201cCaribbean Connect Show (CMC Photo and story).<\/p>\n

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