Akash Sama­roo

The Gov­ern­ment is now push­ing for a spe­cial meet­ing of Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment to chal­lenge the reap­point­ment of Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, sig­nalling that fresh elec­tions are al­so firm­ly on the ta­ble. This, af­ter it was re­vealed yes­ter­day that this coun­try was de­lib­er­ate­ly “dis­in­vit­ed” from the vot­ing process.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go claims it was “sur­rep­ti­tious­ly” ex­clud­ed from the de­ci­sion-mak­ing process, al­leg­ing that the reap­point­ment oc­curred with­out be­ing on the of­fi­cial agen­da and with­out an in­vi­ta­tion for T&T to par­tic­i­pate in the de­lib­er­a­tions.