Da­reece Po­lo

Do­mini­ca Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit says Cari­com is not hid­ing be­hind diplo­mat­ic lan­guage on Cu­ba but has lim­it­ed pow­er to in­flu­ence de­vel­op­ments there, as pres­sure mounts from the Unit­ed States, which has im­ple­ment­ed a block­ade on that is­land, for Caribbean gov­ern­ments to re­assess ties with Ha­vana.

Re­gion­al lead­ers have con­tin­ued to ex­press sol­i­dar­i­ty with Cu­ba, par­tic­u­lar­ly as sev­er­al ter­ri­to­ries re­ly on the Cuban med­ical pro­gramme. But Sker­rit ac­knowl­edged that the bloc’s in­flu­ence is con­strained.