AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoCARICOM Tax & Digital Revenue: Tax administrators and revenue experts will meet in Georgetown, Guyana (27–31 July) for COTA’s 27th General Assembly and Technical Conference, focused on “smart, data-driven and AI-enabled” tax systems and a high-level regional tax-and-development dialogue with OECD partners. Martinique’s CARICOM momentum: Martinique’s formal accession as CARICOM’s seventh associate member is being framed as a practical step for regional cooperation, while Martinique and Barbados signed a landmark cooperation agreement on the CARICOM summit sidelines covering education, health, tourism, trade facilitation, fisheries, sport, culture and disaster risk management. Sargassum push across the OECS: OECS delegates are drawing on Martinique and Guadeloupe experience to build a more coordinated sargassum management response, supported by EU funding, with an added focus on turning seaweed into economic value for the blue economy. Regional connectivity for tourism: LIAT launched a new Guadeloupe–Jamaica route (twice weekly, with plans to move to daily), positioning the service as a boost for tourism and local business supply chains. Reparations debate heats up: CARICOM is promoting a plan urging Britain to give up overseas territories, including Bermuda, as part of reparatory justice demands.
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