Ke­jan Haynes

PANA­MA CITY – Ja­maica’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Kam­i­na John­son Smith has moved to soft­en re­gion­al ten­sions af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed Cari­com as an “un­re­li­able part­ner,” stress­ing that di­a­logue be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and its re­gion­al neigh­bours re­mains in­tact de­spite re­cent strains.

Speak­ing in an in­ter­view at the CAF In­ter­na­tion­al Eco­nom­ic Fo­rum in Pana­ma, John­son Smith framed dis­agree­ments with­in Cari­com as man­age­able, in­sist­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion at the high­est po­lit­i­cal lev­el had nev­er bro­ken down.