Chairman of the Musson Group, P B Scott (left), in discussions with former Prime Minister Bruce Golding at Friday’s CEDA meeting in New Kingston.

MORE than a decade after it was first set for launch in Barbados, a Caribbean Business Council is again on the agenda of major regional companies.

Former president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and head of the Musson Group in Jamaica, P B Scott, who is pushing for the regional private sector to form the single block, did so at a meeting arranged by the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA) at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Friday.

“There are some fundamental issues to private sector players in all of Caricom, and these are issues that our governments signed within the Chaguaramas Treaty and we all agreed to implement,” Scott recalled.

“Some of these issues are more beneficial to some countries than other countries, but to all members of the private sector in this region, they are very important; but as a private sector we have [in many respects] disregarded them,” he argued.

Chairman and CEO of the Musson Group of Companies, one of the most powerful distribution groups in the Caribbean, Scott made the point to guests at the regional private sector engagement meeting which involved business associations and private sector leaders, as well as government and diplomatic officials from across the region.

“When we look at things like free movement of labour, that is an incredibly important process in order to develop a regional trade bloc,” Scott suggested.

The group of Caribbean business stakeholders met in Kingston to solidify their efforts for the development of a regional business grouping to be called the Caribbean Business Council.

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