St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Prime Minister, Dr Godwin Friday, delivered a powerful call for regional solidarity and urgent financial reform, while urging the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and international partners to accelerate funding to combat severe climate shocks and crushing national debt.

​Speaking in Nassau on behalf of the CDB’s borrowing member countries, Dr Friday addressed a high-level delegation including Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis, CDB President Daniel Best, and regional governors.

​Under the conference theme, Forging the Caribbean’s Future: Strategic Solutions for Uncertain Times, Dr Friday explained that the region was navigating “fast-moving, shifting global geopolitical currents” where “old alliances are strained” and “long accepted conventions are being questioned with no reassuring answers.”