ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, May 11, CMC – Foreign Affairs Minister, E.P Chet Greene says the 15-member regional integration grouping, CARICOM, is “now at a cross roads” and regional leaders will have to do much more “to fashion responses” to the problem facing the region.
Greene said he wants to see a stronger more united CARICOM to deal with what he described as “head-winds” that are already impacting the region including the rising cost of energy and the ongoing was in the Middle East involving the United States, Israel and Iran.
In addition, he said the Caribbean will have to deal with the policy being adopted by the United States in asking regional countries to accept third-country deportees.
“CARICOM is now at the crossroads; our regional leaders will have to really put their heads together to fashion responses to these headwinds. The issue of Trinidad and Tobago, for instance, not approving the renewal of the contract for the Secretary-General, that in itself is a problem,” Greene said in a radio programme here.
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