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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana Friday described his discussions with Prime Minister Mia Mottley as \u201cvery very productive and useful\u201d as the two countries moved towards closer cooperation in a wide range of areas including health, education and energy.<\/p>

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Akufo-Addo, who arrived here earlier from Trinidad and Tobago as part of a visit to several Caribbean countries, said the discussions with the Barbadian leader were \u201cvery fruitful\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at a joint news conference (CMC Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He said there would be cooperation in education, in health, in economics and cultural exchanges, noting that there would be exchanges between the University of the West Indies and thaose in the African country.<\/p>

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But he warned that \u201cit is very very important \u2026that the momentum that has come about as a result of this visit is maintained.<\/p>

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\u2018It will only be maintained if the various things we agreed upon\u2026.al of them we actually do them\u201d.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mottley told reporters that \u201cwe have agreed to move beyond that which was a cultural, scientific and technological agreement of 2005\u201d and is working to have an aide memoire completed before the Ghanaian leader leaves here on Saturday.<\/p>

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She said that the visit \u201creflects serious actions and progress beyond the bounds of kindred spirits<\u2019 noting that there had been actions \u201cwith respect to transportation, both air and maritime transportation between the Caribbean and Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a crying shame and scandal that as we go into the third decade of the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century there is no direct schedule air link between Africa and the Caribbean and in particular between West Africa and the Eastern Caribbean\u201d.<\/p>

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She said that there\u2019s need to create the opportunities for both countries as hubs with Ghana serving as a gateway to Africa and Bridgetown opening up the gateway to the Caribbean and Latin America.<\/p>

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\u201cMaritime transportation properly structured can be an area in which we find tremendous opportunities for cooperation,\u201d she said, noting that the talks were also attended by UWI Vice-Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, we recognise the opportunities for renewable energy, particularly solar and in that respect not just the science of renewable energy but also the investment opportunity for both of our citizens to be able to move forward to help us reach the goal of being able to rely more and more on renewable energy and less and less on fossil fuel as we go forward to help stabilise this world in the battle against climate chnage\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said with immediate effect the two countries would also be pursuing the exchange of nurses but also the joint education of nurses\u201d as we go forward in order to stabilise our health care sector in Barbados.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have also agreed that the opportunities that have already been built upon by Cave Hill (campus of the JUWI), the receipt of the first cohort of medical students from the first of August this year is something we will see expand largely because those students will\u00a0 spend their first three years here before they go back to Ghana in order to finish the MBBS,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mottley said Barbados had also agreed to the establishment of a diplomatic presence in Accra and both leaders again made reference to the slave trade with President Akufo-Addo saying never again would his people be subjected to that aspect of history.<\/p>\n

He said the presence of Barbadians in Ghana at events marking the 400th anniversary of the slave trade would \u201csend a very powerful statement on both sides of the Atlantic\u201d.<\/p>\n

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana Friday described his discussions with Prime Minister Mia Mottley as \u201cvery very productive and useful\u201d as the two countries moved towards closer cooperation in a wide range of areas including health, education and energy. 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