PM blasts former Caricom leaders over Cuba embargo appeal

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused for­mer re­gion­al lead­ers of hypocrisy, telling them to stop sup­port­ing a po­lit­i­cal sys­tem abroad that they would not want im­posed in their own coun­tries.

Her re­marks come as for­mer Cari­com lead­ers urge coun­tries to sup­port the an­nu­al Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly res­o­lu­tion call­ing for an end to Wash­ing­ton’s decades-old eco­nom­ic, com­mer­cial and fi­nan­cial em­bar­go against Cu­ba.

Among the sig­na­to­ries to the ap­peal is for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, whose en­dorse­ment places him along­side oth­er for­mer Caribbean lead­ers call­ing for in­ter­na­tion­al sup­port for the mea­sure. “I en­cour­age these for­mer Cari­com heads to lob­by to con­vert their own coun­tries in­to dic­ta­tor­ships run by the po­lit­i­cal par­ties that they didn’t be­long to,” the Prime Min­is­ter said in a re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.