Prime Minister Mia Mottley is travelling to the United States this weekend to attend Monday’s International Monetary Fund (IMF)/ World Bank conference on Building Resilience to Disasters and Climate Change in the Caribbean.
Mottley, who was in Trinidad and Tobago delivering the annual dinner and awards presentation of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club on Friday night, is one of the lead speakers in the session entitled: Taking Stock of Efforts to Build Resilience, which will focus on why countries in the Caribbean invest so little in building resilience.
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness will be the featured speaker at the one-day conference which will address financial solutions for disaster risk management and Prime Minister Mottley will be a part of the panel discussion on: The Way Forward.
The conference aims to bring together key stakeholders, including senior policymakers, donors, and multilateral development partners, to explore options for supporting countries in their efforts to build resilience and to create innovative disaster risk financing policies.
It will also explore options and innovative financial protection solutions for Caribbean countries, the scope for regional solutions, obstacles to their implementation and appropriate remedial measures.
Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados, Cleviston Haynes and Economic Advisor to the government of Barbados, Dr. Kevin Greenidge, will also attend the high-level conference.
