Grenada’s Prime Minister calls for a CARICOM Single ICT Space

GRENADA’S PRIME MINISTER, Dikon Mitchell is calling for his Caribbean counterparts to create a single ICT space and fully embrace the digital age. The Grenada leader, who is CARICOM’s lead Head of Government on Information Communication Technology (ICT), was the keynote speaker Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at the opening of the 40th Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition of the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organisations (CANTO) convened in The Bahamas.

He emphasized the importance of regional unity in shaping the Caribbean’s digital future. He called for urgent alignment on spectrum harmonization, cross-border digital identity recognition, federated cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity, a CANTO release states.

Highlighting Grenada’s national strategy built on digital government, infrastructure, identity, economy, and inclusion, Mitchell stressed that no island can advance alone and urged the creation of a CARICOM Single ICT Space to enable seamless movement of people, services, and data across borders. He said a unified Caribbean digital future requires bold policy, shared infrastructure, and human-centred transformation.

Addressing hundreds of delegates at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, Mitchell framed the Caribbean’s digital journey as a defining moment of self-determination.

“We are not simply digitizing our societies, we are shaping the Caribbean’s place in the world,” he told the packed hall of government leaders, regulators, operators, and technologists.

“The question is not whether we will participate in the global digital economy, but how and on whose terms.”

In outlining Grenada’s national digital strategy, built on five pillars of digital government, infrastructure, identity, economy, and inclusion, Mitchell described his government’s efforts to modernize public services, deploy resilient connectivity, and enable citizens to access secure digital ID systems.

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