Uhuru: Barbados is Kenya's strategic partner in the Caribbean

President Uhuru Kenyatta, accompanied by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta, were on Wednesday received at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados by Prime Minister Mia Mottley. The President was accorded a full state reception, complete with a 21-gun salute. [PSCU]

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday evening expressed the need for Kenya and the Caribbean island state of Barbados to scale up their bilateral engagement for the mutual benefit of the two countries.

Terming Barbados as a strategic partner for Kenya in the Caribbean, the President said the two developing countries need to work in solidarity in pursuit of closer ties especially with regard to South-South cooperation to cement the relationship that started almost 100 years ago in London when Pan Africanists worked together in the struggle for liberation.