Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­ten­si­fied her crit­i­cism of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com), ac­cus­ing the re­gion­al body of con­ceal­ing what she de­scribed as a cor­rupt back­room op­er­a­tion that un­der­mines the or­gan­i­sa­tion and harms Caribbean cit­i­zens.

On April 11, Cari­com pub­lished a state­ment on its Face­book page from Chair­man, Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Ter­rance Drew. The state­ment sought to dis­miss con­cerns raised by Trinidad and To­ba­go re­gard­ing the reap­point­ment of her as SG.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the state­ment failed to ad­dress key is­sues, in­clud­ing a What­sApp mes­sage sent on Feb­ru­ary 26, to all Cari­com For­eign Min­is­ters. “Nowhere in the state­ment craft­ed by GS Bar­nett did she ad­dress the What­sApp mes­sage sent on the COF­COR What­sApp group to all Cari­com For­eign Min­is­ters at 8:55 a.m.,” she stat­ed.