Trump economic measures would affect the Caribbean, warns media
From Presna Latina
Kingston, Oct 30 (Prensa Latina) The implementation of economic measures proposed to the United States Congress by President Donald Trump, such as the reduction of international aid by 33 percent, would affect Caribbean nations, warn media reports.
The newspaper Jamaica Observer warned that Dominica would suffer a cut of 50 percent of the aforementioned support currently received under the umbrella of the so-called United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He specified that Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean would only benefit from the equivalent of 59 percent of the current financing received from the same budget.
Meanwhile, Jamaica will stop receiving a quarter of the economic support sent by the aforementioned US federal agency.
Haiti would also be hurt by 17 percent, the publication said.
The proposal by Trump was endorsed by the congressman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the United States Eliot Engel, who described the cut in the budget of ‘draconian and myopic’.
Engel criticized Trump when he recently received the Jamaican Pinnacle prize in the Bronx, of the Unification and Family Reinsertion Initiative.
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