Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment have agreed to re­fer the dis­pute sur­round­ing the reap­point­ment of Cari­com Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett to the Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).

The de­ci­sion was an­nounced to­day dur­ing the 51st Reg­u­lar Meet­ing of the Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment in St Lu­cia.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had pro­posed re­fer­ring the mat­ter to the CCJ af­ter rais­ing con­cerns about the process used to ex­tend Dr Bar­nett’s tenure.