Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has wel­comed a de­ci­sion by Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Heads of Gov­ern­ment to sup­port Trinidad and To­ba­go's pro­pos­al to re­fer is­sues sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of the Cari­com Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice for an ad­vi­so­ry opin­ion.

In a me­dia state­ment is­sued to­day, PM Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the de­ci­sion fol­lowed dis­cus­sions at the Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment re­treat on Ju­ly 6, where she main­tained Trinidad and To­ba­go's ob­jec­tions to the process used in the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al's reap­point­ment.

The PM said Trinidad and To­ba­go pro­posed that the mat­ter be re­ferred to the CCJ un­der Ar­ti­cle 212 of the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas, which al­lows Cari­com to seek the court's guid­ance on ques­tions con­cern­ing the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of treaty pro­vi­sions.