A meet­ing aimed at analysing the debt sit­u­a­tion in Caribbean coun­tries and poli­cies for debt re­lief will be held in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from across the re­gion will at­tend the meet­ing or­gan­ised by the Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tari­at of the Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean Eco­nom­ic Sys­tem (SELA) with the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tari­at of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean States (ACS).

The event will al­so fo­cus on dif­fer­ent ap­proach­es that re­spond to the par­tic­u­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics of the economies in the re­gion, ex­change ex­pe­ri­ences among coun­tries in the sub-re­gion re­lat­ed the sub­ject of debt re­lief and dis­sem­i­nate in­for­ma­tion about this re­al­i­ty among coun­tries and in­te­gra­tion or­gan­i­sa­tions in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

It is al­so aimed at iden­ti­fy­ing debt re­lief poli­cies, par­tic­u­lar­ly mea­sures to pro­mote in­vest­ment and to spur eco­nom­ic growth, reach con­clu­sions and rec­om­men­da­tions with op­er­a­tional use for af­fect­ed coun­tries, as well as strate­gic in­for­ma­tion for oth­er mem­ber states.