Caribbean lead­ers have laid out a de­tailed time­line of events sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Car­la Bar­nett, con­firm­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go nei­ther at­tend­ed key dis­cus­sions nor a sub­se­quent emer­gency meet­ing con­vened to ad­dress the is­sue.

In a state­ment fol­low­ing Fri­day’s spe­cial meet­ing, CARI­COM Chair­man Ter­rance Drew said nei­ther Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar nor any rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Trinidad and To­ba­go took part in the talks, which were called to ad­dress con­cerns raised by Port of Spain over gov­er­nance and Bar­nett’s reap­point­ment.

The re­gion­al body said all mem­ber states were for­mal­ly no­ti­fied ahead of the Feb­ru­ary 24–27 Con­fer­ence of Heads in St Kitts and Nevis, in­clud­ing the agen­da, pro­gramme of work and de­tails of a Heads-on­ly re­treat where the reap­point­ment was dis­cussed.