(CNC3) Trinidad and Tobago says its objection to the reappointment of Dr. Carla Barnett as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General is “neither personal nor political.”

In a 22-page letter to regional leaders, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Port-of-Spain’s position “is not directed towards any individual” but rather concerns “the legality of the process adopted, the integrity of our institutions and the faithful observance of the constitutional framework established by the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas”.

She said her administration “does not accept the process by which the Secretary General was purportedly reappointed and, consequently, is unable to recognise the validity of the purported second term of the Secretary General”.