Insiders blame some in the Jamaican delegation at the main leaders' conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica, last July for making it obvious to [Edwin Carrington] that it was time for someone else to run the secretariat. Lolita Applewhaite, the Barbados-born deputy secretary-general, has been carrying on in the absence of Carrington, but leaders are expected to examine about five candidates whom a special search committee has shortlisted to replace him. Other items leaders will look at include Britain's decision to suspend the constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands, an allegedly corrupt associate member of the bloc; the slowerthan-expected progress with some aspects of the single trading market; and Britain's decision to impose new taxes on air tickets to the Caribbean. [...] even as t...
LESS THAN a month after telling journalists that he "never came to stay forever", Edwin Carrington has informed Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders of his intention to step down as the region's premier public servant at year-end. In recent months, the leadership of the Georgetown-based CARICOM Secretariat had been called into question, and during the just-concluded summit of regional leaders in Jamaica, newspaper editorials fingered the 72-yearold Carrington as among the main culprits.
In early September, President [Hugo Chavez Frias] and Caribbean leaders flew to Jamaica's western tourist resort city of Montego Bay to sign the Petrocaribe deal through which Venezuela supplies oil to the region at market prices but under soft financing terms provided by the world's number five exporting oil nation. The deal was signed with Cuban President Fidel Castro, a close buddy of Chavez, looking on. The Dominican Republic is also in on it. In the last week, Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur and Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington have made public statements putting the whole issue in context and indicating that Caricom might have breached its own rules by invoking Petrocaribe. A number of angles would have to be worked out. It is a question of whether the proper proce...
[Bruce Golding], a 59-year-old economist and leader of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), replaced Portia Simpson-Miller, the first female prime minister of the island of 2.6 million. Simpson-Miller's pro-working-class People's National Party (PNP) was swept from office by the free market-leaning JLP after nearly two decades by an electorate that clamored for change after four consecutive PNP terms and by a powerful private sector that pumped millions into the JLP campaign. Several Caribbean dignitaries, including Caribbean Community Chairman and Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur, as well as trade bloc Secretary General Edwin Carrington, headed to Jamaica for the swearing knowing fully well that the JLP is not that that strong on key Caribbean integration issues like abolishing the Briti...
The region is not losing the war on crime, nor can the region afford to lose the war on crime," said [Patrick Manning] while announcing plans for the special summit. "We are taking the discussions to a new level. "Time is not on our side if we are to safeguard our security. Unity is necessary to surmount the serious threat of crime to the very fabric of our societies and to our hopes for a viable and prosperous Caribbean," [Edwin Carrington] said. Thompson threw in his contribution by saying, "If one of our member governments is perceived as incapable of bringing criminals to justice, then what is there to stop criminals elsewhere from challenging the authority of governments?" Trinidad is the venue because Prime Minister Patrick Manning is the head of government in charge of crime an...
There are a number of things that are happening now that are destabilizing and threatening the existence of Caricom. The political integration that is being pursued by Trinidad and a number of countries in the Eastern Caribbean may very well be commendable, but I believe that it is at the detriment to the deepening and strengthening of Caricom," he said. On [Chavez]'s ALBA, [Bruce Golding] contended that he believed "that the membership of ALBA, which now engages three Caricom countries, is going to have a destabilizing effect on Caricom. It is going to distract, it is going to divert, and it is something that I believe that Caricom leaders need to examine," he said, vowing to raise the issue in Guyana in July. Golding might not have been aware of similar comments made by Caricom Secre...
... comments made by Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington in recent weeks after it was announced ...
Contingent rights pertain to professionals legally moving from one country to the next to set up shop. Their spouses are supposed to be able to obtain jobs quite easily, register their children in school and qualify for health and other services, as is the case in other countries accepting arrivals with work permits and other authentic documents. But some, like host nation Barbados, are continuing with their long history of making spouses uncomfortable, refusing them jobs and complaining about the strain on health and education services on the part of new arrivals. This is by far the biggest effort to look at where we are," says Tobago-born bloc Secretary General Edwin Carrington. "This is our biggest review. We have to see where we are at. While the trade in goods and services have g...
The Bureau comprises current CARICOM Chairman, Dominica s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, the Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo, President Rene Preval, of Haiti, and CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington. The Guyana-based CARICOM's Secretariat was instructed to set up a small control centre dedicated to co-ordinate the region's continued assistance to Haiti. Member States and Associate Members will be asked to identify focal points to work with the unit. The unit will work closely with CARICOM's special envoy on Haiti, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson. The statement said that the Bureau also agreed on ensuring the continued operations in Haiti of the Jamaica contingent which has been in Haiti since January 13 'underpinning the CARICOM relief effort'.
A TOP Caribbean Community (CARICOM) economic adviser last Thursday said that the current global economic downturn should serve as a 'wake-up call' for the region, which he believes needs to be more inward-looking about investment. We have a Single Market and Economy and there are opportunities within the region and we should look more carefully at what these opportunities are because the more we are closely integrated, the less we are exposed to the outside world where a lot of these shocks are emanating," said Maurice OdIe, economic advisor to the CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington. With dark clouds still setting on the world horizon, OdIe further challenged the Caribbean to 'think out side the box'
Edwin Carrington, Caricom's secretary General, said this week that both sides are anxious to get a deal up and running very soon, but Caricom's negotiating team is busy working on agreements in current global trade talks trying to tie up an economic partnership agreement with the European Union (EU) and preparing for a June summit with the Bush administration on Capitol Hill. The Central Americans and the U.S. already worked out a free-trade arrangement in 2005, just about the time when it was becoming clear that the refusal of the U.S. to lower subsidies it gives to its own farmers would have derailed hemispheric talks for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
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