Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, is urging the Inter-American Development Bank to increase its financial support to Caribbean states to help boost development given their vulnerability to natural disasters, external shocks, and global economic volatility.
The Minister made these comments on Friday at the 2026 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the IDB and IDB-Invest currently taking place in Asunción, Paraguay. He was accompanied by the Executive Director in the Caribbean Office of the IDB, Navita Ramroop; Director of Projects, and Senior Economic and Financial Analyst at the Ministry of Finance, Bernard Lord; and Ronette Hetsberger, respectively, a Ministry of Finance release stated.
