If the Caribbean and Africa put the same kind of effort into expanding trade as they did in cooperating to secure vaccines during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, more African and Caribbean products would be exchanged across the Atlantic and on both regions’ supermarket shelves. Okechukwu Ihejirika, the acting chief operating officer of the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) CARICOM office in Barbados, is not only convinced of that, but he is confident that when the 31st Afreximbank Annual Meetings (AAM) and the third edition of the AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2024) take place in the Bahamas this week, solutions will be found to the challenges that prevent the expansion of trade.
