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Two months af­ter say­ing Cari­com is not a re­li­able part­ner to Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T), Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ripped in­to the re­gion­al or­gan­i­sa­tion again, la­belling it dys­func­tion­al.

In a loaded state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, Per­sad-Bisses­sar tore in­to Cari­com say­ing, “Cari­com is not a re­li­able part­ner at this time. The fact is that be­neath the thin mask of uni­ty, there are many widen­ing fis­sures that, if left un­ad­dressed, will lead to its im­plo­sion.

“The or­gan­i­sa­tion is de­te­ri­o­rat­ing rapid­ly due to poor man­age­ment, lax ac­count­abil­i­ty, fac­tion­al di­vi­sions, desta­bil­is­ing poli­cies, pri­vate con­flicts be­tween re­gion­al lead­ers and po­lit­i­cal par­ties and the in­ap­pro­pri­ate med­dling in the do­mes­tic pol­i­tics of mem­ber states. That’s the plain truth.”