UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Darren Henry MP as the new trade envoy to the Commonwealth Caribbean.
The Commonwealth Caribbean markets include Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago.
His role as trade envoy will involve supporting British trade and investment objectives, promoting the Commonwealth Caribbean as a great place for UK companies to do business and the implementation of the new CARIFORUM-UK Economic Partnership Agreement.
Henry will be involved in virtual engagements including meetings with government ministers, hosting high-level incoming visitors, meeting key stakeholders and addressing important business events.
British Commissioner to SVG, Steve Moore congratulated the new envoy on his Oct. 5 appointment, noting it was a prime opportunity to strengthen the UK’s trade and investment relationship with SVG.
British High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Janet Douglas said:
“Our High Commission teams in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean are delighted that Mr. Henry has been appointed. We look forward to working closely through our Department for International Trade, to help UK businesses recognise the trade and investment opportunities that exist in the Caribbean…
“By amplifying the array of commercial opportunities in the region to UK firms, Mr Henry will play a significant role in helping us further grow the current 2.8 billion pound sterling in imports and exports of goods and services with these CARICOM trading nations.”
As the incompetent Ralph Gonsalves family regime, who have proved themselves profoundly lacking in applied economic skills over their twenty years in office, roams the world begging for economic Aid support, what I am sure the British, a trading nation of long standing, and well versed in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations no doubt wants to hear from us Vincentians is “trade please” and not “more Aid please”!