PM makes letter public amid dispute over Caricom Secretary General

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has made pub­lic a let­ter by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers to Cari­com re­gard­ing this coun­try’s at­ten­dance at any meet­ing to dis­cuss the reap­point­ment of Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett.

In a post on Face­book yes­ter­day, the Prime Min­is­ter said that be­cause the con­tents of a let­ter dat­ed April 8 to the Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts and Nevis, who is al­so Cari­com chair­man, were leaked, she chose to share the de­tails of a let­ter this coun­try sent to Cari­com say­ing it would not at­tend any talks. She al­so called on the re­gion­al group­ing to pro­vide the rel­e­vant doc­u­men­ta­tion on the mat­ter.

She said, “While the doc­u­men­ta­tion is be­ing gath­ered…can some­one in Cari­com al­so speak to the Cari­com Sec­re­tari­at about the com­mu­ni­ca­tions on the morn­ing of the re­treat dis­invit­ing Min­is­ter Sobers from the meet­ing.”