The economic future of the Caribbean and its relations with other regional blocks will be the central topic on the agenda of the Cariforum meeting with the participation of the English-speaking Caribbean, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. President Fidel Castro of Cuba will also be present during the sessions scheduled to be held in Santo Domingo, 20-22 August. The chiefs of state will decide the strategy to follow in the region. The growth policies and market expansion alternatives will also be discussed. Chiefs of state from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Kitts-Nevis, Anguilla, St. Vincent, Bahamas and Suriname., Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic will participate in the meeting. During the event, the DR will sign a free trade agreement with Caricom, similar to that signed on 17 April with Central America during the visit of statesmen from Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
