Jesse Ramdeo

Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley has an­nounced that Trinidad and To­ba­go will play a key role in ad­vanc­ing a long-await­ed in­tra-re­gion­al fer­ry ser­vice, re­veal­ing that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has agreed to ex­plore the use of one of this coun­try’s fer­ries as a proof of con­cept while longer-term pri­vate sec­tor arrange­ments are fi­nalised.

Ad­dress­ing the clos­ing me­dia con­fer­ence, Mot­t­ley said re­duc­ing the cost of in­tra-is­land car­go trans­porta­tion has be­come an ur­gent re­gion­al pri­or­i­ty as glob­al geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions con­tin­ue to dri­ve up the prices of oil, freight and oth­er es­sen­tial goods, con­tribut­ing to a high­er cost of liv­ing across the Caribbean.