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The Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, will lead a review of the telecommunications environment in the Region.
Prime Minister Mitchell is Lead Head of Government with responsibility for Science and Technology in the CARICOM Quasi Cabinet.
The Prime Minister and the Hon. David Burt, Premier of Bermuda will support the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados and Chair of CARICOM, to review the sector’s environment, with a view to creating a competitive environment where customers and providers are treated fairly.
Addressing the media at the end of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, Prime Minister Mottley referred to the annual billion-dollar earnings of some communication platforms and services from which the Region does not benefit economically.
“We were informed that (these entities) earn as much as $11.6B a year and they pay no taxes.
There is no contribution in any way to the regional economy, and at the same time, the absence of revenue to the telecommunications firms means that at the very time that we need to be looking at re-investment to make our telecommunications infrastructure sturdier, it is not there,” the Chair stated.
“We are at the stage of exploration, but Premier Burt and Prime Minister Mitchell will work with me to be able to put the Community in a position to be able to better level the playing field to ensure that there is fairness to the consumer, fairness to the provider and a competitive environment.
We are conscious that the Caribbean, as a region of small states, has higher telecommunication costs than we would normally like to see as compared to other regions,” Prime Minister Mottley said.
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About CARICOM:
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was established on 4 July 1973 with the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, which was revised in 2001 to allow for the establishment of a single market and economy.
The Community comprises fifteen Member States and six Associate Members. It is home to approximately sixteen million citizens, 60% of whom are under 30 years old. CARICOM rests on four main pillars: economic integration; foreign policy coordination; human and social development; and security cooperation.
Through the combined efforts to build a “Community for All”, it remains one of the best examples of integration in the developing world and is the oldest surviving integration movement.
The CARICOM Secretariat, the principal administrative organ of the Community, is headquartered in Georgetown, Guyana.
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Long overdue! The region needs better connectivity and fairer telecom pricing.
This review is necessary, but will it bring actual changes or just more discussions?
will this review tackle monopolies and unfair pricing by providers?
Glad to see CARICOM addressing telecom issues—hope this leads to lower roaming charges.
If this leads to more affordable and reliable internet, it will be a win for businesses and citizens.
An $11.6 billion USD white monopoly capital corporate telecommunication industry, our politicians are dwarfs in this fight, that’s why the neocolinial set up commonwealth meetings to steer business favourably into the hands of white monopoly capital domination.
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