Be­lize Prime Min­is­ter John Briceño has thrown his sup­port be­hind CARI­COM Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett while crit­i­cis­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ab­sence from a re­cent head of gov­ern­ment meet­ing, de­scrib­ing the sit­u­a­tion as one that should be re­solved with­in the re­gion­al bloc.

Speak­ing with re­porters in Be­lize, Briceño said even though Bar­nett was a mem­ber of an op­pos­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ty in Be­lize, he said dif­fer­ences can be had in­ter­nal­ly but in­ter­na­tion­al­ly they stand as one.

He said Bar­nett was a "high­ly qual­i­fied" Be­lizean who con­tin­ues to have the sup­port of Be­lize.