A Cari­com meet­ing to dis­cuss the Ebo­la is­sue has been ten­ta­tive­ly set for next month.This is ac­cord­ing to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who called for such a meet­ing to al­so dis­cuss the ChikV epi­dem­ic in the re­gion.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said T&T re­mained com­mit­ted to such a meet­ing, adding that Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Ir­win Le Roche had said last week that the trav­el plans of Cari­com heads had caused the meet­ing to be sched­uled for next month. She said no fixed date had been giv­en for the high-lev­el meet­ing.THA Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don al­so spoke about the is­sue at yes­ter­day's news con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, St Clair.

He said the fight against Ebo­la can­not be a To­ba­go or T&T re­sponse but a re­gion­al ef­fort. He said: "If we have one Ebo­la case in the re­gion, then you brand the Caribbean as how you brand Africa. When you hear Africa you think Ebo­la, re­gard­less of which coun­try it is."Lon­don said a sim­i­lar sit­u­a­tion could de­vel­op in the re­gion if one Caribbean state had an Ebo­la vic­tim.

He said the re­gion must con­tin­ue to do all it can to pre­vent Ebo­la from en­ter­ing, pre­pare if it does and pray that it does not.