#BTColumn – CARICOM governance review
Article by May 8, 2021
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by
Dr. Basil Springer
“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.” –
1 Corinthians 12:26
CARICOM, a commendable resource base of 18 former British colonies, Haiti and Suriname with 18 million people over a collective land mass of 500,000 km2, has evolved 60 years after the demise of the West Indies Federation.
The principal governance organs of CARICOM are: (1) The Conference of Heads of Government with a rotating biannual chairmanship by a Prime Minister; and (2) a quasi cabinet through which individual heads of government have lead responsibility for specific areas and the Community Council Of Ministers (Ministers of CARICOM affairs in member states).
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Apr 1, 2021
Dr. Carla Barnet under Consideration for CARICOM Secretary General
Belize has nominated Doctor Carla Barnett, former CARICOM Deputy Secretary General, for the post of Secretary General of CARICOM. Dr. Barnett has worked across the CARICOM region during her roles as an economist, later as vice president at the Caribbean Development Bank, and as a consultant to development agencies working in the Caribbean. In Belize, Doctor Barnett has been deputy governor of the Central Bank of Belize and was the financial secretary during Belize’s first successful debt restructuring in 2007. Under the previous administration, Doctor Barnett was vice president of the Senate and a minister of state in the Ministry of Finance. The selection of the Secretary General is expected to be announced in late April or early May after recommendations are made by the Community Council of Ministers.