Excerpt and photo from caribbean.loopnews.com
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley says the current practice of international reviews of small island developing states (SIDS) every five to 10 years, “is inadequate” and called for a biennial assembly of SIDS heads along with the establishment of a governance structure to oversee the implementation of the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States (ABAS)
Addressing the Fourth International Conference on SIDS (SIDS 4), Mottley said Barbados was looking forward to the adoption of ABAS, which she described as “a renewed declaration for resilient prosperity”.
She told the conference being held under the theme “Charting the course toward resilient prosperity” that the frequency and scale of natural disasters causing human suffering, loss or compromised livelihoods, irreparable physical damage and high economic costs are now regrettably a horrifying global reality.