Sir Dwight, who is here attending an International Monetary Fund (IMF) sponsored closed door high-level forum on low growth and high debt in the Caribbean, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that the OECS as well as the wider Caribbean have been pointing out to international lending agencies such as the IMF that “unless there is growth the other two cannot resolve themselves.

“So they have responded to that by having this conference where the emphasis is on growth. But what we want from them is some view how the growth problem is tackled.

“The reason for that globally growth is not happening as it should and we depend on the external environment therefore that has to be fixed which is where they operate …and also within our own domain,” he told CMC.