STORY: China-Caribbean cooperation bolsters regional development, common prosperity: Caribbean officials
SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage
DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2025
LENGTH: 00:00:58
LOCATION: Bridgetown       
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LATRAE RAHMING, Director of Communications at the Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOSEPH ANDALL, Grenada's Foreign Affairs Minister   

STORYLINE:

Cooperation with China has contributed to the development and common prosperity of Caribbean countries, officials said on the sidelines of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Latrae Rahming, director of Communications at the Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, stressed that CARICOM and China have for years had a robust relationship in such areas as education, health, and infrastructure building.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LATRAE RAHMING, Director of Communications at the Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas
"I think the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in particular, for the region, has been an instrument in the economic development of these countries, those who are participating in it, and who are project-aligned with it. I think a majority of the Caribbean countries acknowledge and support the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and in many ways have benefited from it."

Grenada's Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell recently paid an official visit to China to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries and he considered it a fruitful and pleasant tour, said the island's Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Andall.

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JOSEPH ANDALL, Grenada's Foreign Affairs Minister
"China has been a very good and reliable partner to countries of the Global South, including Grenada and others in the Caribbean. We value our relationship with China because it is based on mutual respect. And I think that it is something that we all need to continue and to deepen."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Bridgetown.
(XHTV)