{"id":38127,"date":"2025-04-07T16:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/caribbean-is-friend-of-us-not-an-enemy-regional-leaders-say-over-trumps-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:27:28","slug":"caribbean-is-friend-of-us-not-an-enemy-regional-leaders-say-over-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/caribbean-is-friend-of-us-not-an-enemy-regional-leaders-say-over-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean is friend of US, not an enemy, regional leaders say over Trump\u2019s tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados PM and Caricom chair calls on Washington to engage in talks to \u2018keep prices down for all of our people\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Caribbean is a friend, not an enemy, leaders in the region have told Donald Trump after the US president\u2019s imposition of worldwide import tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, invited Trump to talk with leaders in the region and \u201cwork together to keep prices down for all of our people\u201d, adding: \u201cI say simply to President Trump: our economies are not doing your economy any harm in any way. They are too small to have any negative or distorted impact on your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/07\/caribbean-leaders-donald-trump-tariffs-mia-mottley\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbados PM and Caricom chair calls on Washington to engage in talks to \u2018keep prices down for all of our people\u2019 The Caribbean is a friend, not an enemy, leaders in the region have told Donald Trump after the US president\u2019s imposition of worldwide import tariffs. The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, invited Trump &#8230; <a title=\"Caribbean is friend of US, not an enemy, regional leaders say over Trump\u2019s tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/caribbean-is-friend-of-us-not-an-enemy-regional-leaders-say-over-trumps-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Caribbean is friend of US, not an enemy, regional leaders say over Trump\u2019s tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}