Barbados’ High Commissioner Presents Credentials to Ghana’s President in Diplomatic Milestone
November 13, 2024
Barbados' first High Commissioner to Ghana presents credentials to President Akufo-Addo, marking a milestone in bilateral relations since 1994. Discussions on culture, trade, health, and climate cooperation were highlighted.
Barbados’ First Resident High Commissioner to Ghana, Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland, has presented her letters of credentials to President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
It took place on November 7 at Jubilee House, Accra, Ghana, marking a significant milestone between the two nations, which started formal diplomatic relations in August 1994.
Bynoe-Sutherland brought greetings on behalf of President of Barbados The Most Honourable Dame Sandra Mason and Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.
She thanked Akufo-Addo for his inspirational words in National Heroes Square during the ceremony marking Barbados becoming a republic in November 2021.
She also focused on the ways in which the Atlantic Bridge was being rekindled through areas of cooperation in culture, trade and commerce, agriculture, life sciences and sports.
Having led the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as executive chairman through COVID-19, the High Commissioner highlighted the successful cooperation in health between the two countries since 2019, which she said now serves as a model. She shared
insights into the positive contributions of the first two cohorts of Ghanaian nurses and the programme under way to welcome and orient the third cohort of 155 nurses who arrived on November 3.
Akufo-Addo, in response, spoke about the deep enduring relationship between the countries. He asked that special greetings be sent to Mottley for her support and leadership during Ghana’s efforts around its candidacy for Commonwealth Secretary General.
As Barbados assumes from Ghana the chairmanship of the Climate Vulnerability Forum (V20), cooperation is expected to deepen between the countries on climate vulnerability and efforts to achieve reform of the international financial institutions captured by the Bridgetown Initiative 3.0.
Also in attendance was Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayokor Bocheway, who was elected as the incoming seventh Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations. (BA/PR)
