A current bilateral engagement targeted on strengthening relations between Barbados and Panama in commerce, tradition, and historic tourism.
Kerrie Symmonds, Minister of Overseas Affairs and Overseas Commerce welcomed the prospect to strengthen bilateral relations when Minister of Overseas Affairs of the Republic of Panama, Janaina Tewaney Mencomo, paid him a courtesy name at his workplace.
Mr. Symmonds welcomed Ms. Mencomo to Barbados, noting that strengthening connections with Panama is in keeping with the federal government’s purpose of creating and increasing relationships with Latin American nations.
The Panamanian Overseas Minister’s go to follows an announcement in February that the Barbados Cupboard had permitted Panama’s proposal to determine a diplomatic presence in Barbados.
Minister Mencomo acknowledged that particulars are nonetheless being labored out however emphasised that political will is current. She famous that Panama and Barbados can be inextricably linked since hundreds of Barbadians, principally males, labored on the Panama Canal and influenced Panama Metropolis’s tradition, significantly music.
Minister Symmonds agreed that the 2 nations have important genealogical and cultural ties. He famous that at a time when Barbados had restricted financial exercise and job alternatives, the remittances of people who went to work on the Canal helped to spice up the economic system.
Different matters coated through the dialogue had been the local weather difficulty and its affect on the Canal, how the disaster hurts commerce and the price of residing, and selling Barbados as an aviation and cargo hub connecting the southern Caribbean to Panama.
Panama in Central America is named “the bridge between two worlds” as a result of it first opened for commerce on August 15, 1914.
Barbados started diplomatic relations with the Republic of Panama in August 1975.
Barbados’ Ambassador to Panama, Ian Walcott; Senior Overseas Service Officer, Dr Ricardo Kellman; Overseas Service Officers, SherryLisa Waldron and Davion Sealy; Ambassador-designate to Barbados, Xiomara Perez; Chargè D’Affaires, Bolivar Jack Barrios; Director of Professional Panama, Carmen Gisela Vergara; and Advisor and Chief of Employees to the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Flor Flores Tello, had been additionally current on the courtesy name.
