CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia, Jul 6 (CMC) – Ja­maica’s Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness says that while his coun­try is not seek­ing to over­turn the de­ci­sion of re­gion­al lead­ers to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), it re­mains “con­cerned that the ap­proach tak­en has nei­ther re­solved the mat­ter nor pro­mot­ed the spir­it and goals of the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas”.

In a Ju­ly 5, 2026 let­ter sent to CARI­COM Chair­man and St Lu­cia Prime Min­is­ter Philip J. Pierre, Prime Min­is­ter Hol­ness wrote that “the length of time de­vot­ed to this agen­da item at­tests to the grav­i­ty and po­ten­tial ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the is­sue at hand”.

He said Kingston’s po­si­tion re­it­er­ates one tak­en on May 8 and that the new let­ter “will ex­pand on the con­cerns ex­pressed re­gard­ing cer­tain pro­ce­dur­al mat­ters”.