Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has advanced the Government’s challenge to the reappointment of Caricom Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett, using the regional body’s own internal communications trail to argue that the process was handled in a surreptitious and flawed manner.

Persad-Bissessar also said any effort to publicly malign Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs would be met with direct responses from both herself and her administration.

The Prime Minister, via her social media channels yesterday morning, fired back at Caricom chairman Dr Terrance Drew, noting that there was more official attention given to a ceremonial shirt than to the reappointment process of the Secretary-General.