OPPOSITION Senator Dr Amery Browne expressed his deep disappointment that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar had not attended the recent Caricom heads of government meeting in Jamaica and lamented that Trinidad and Tobago had just missed the opportunity to be part of a free movement treaty struck up among four Caricom member states.

He spoke at a briefing at the office of the Leader of the Opposition, Port of Spain, on July 9.

While he mentioned the attendance of Foreign Affairs Minister Sean Sobers and Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander, Browne said Persad-Bissessar's absence meant she had lost an opportunity to re-set relations between her government and other Caricom governments, as he recalled her remarks at a Caricom meeting in her first term as PM that TT was not an ATM machine. He termed Sobers and Alexander "novice ministers."