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37th Head of Government Meeting… CARICOM must expedite its efforts to promote a good life –St. Lucia PM tells Heads
President David Granger, with first lady Sandra Granger, as they lead the CARICOM Heads off stage
President David Granger motions to veteran Journalist Enrico Woolford,
with him is Minister of Public Telecommunications Cathy Hughes
The newly elected Prime Minster of St. Lucia, Allen Chastanet, last evening at the opening of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)’s 37th Heads of Government Conference held at the National Culture Centre in Georgetown, Guyana, urged other heads to expedite a move to provide a better life for the people of the Caribbean.
The Prime Minister said that he is looking forward to meeting with members to discuss how measures can be initiated to further strengthen regional integration.
He believes that members do not make enough time to meet with each other outside of conferences.
“We need to listen more and bond with each other. Maybe then we can be able to find win-win solutions that will benefit the region.” He said.
He continued that CARICOM must deliver on a better way of life and the excuse that progress in hampered by consensus is no longer convincing or acceptable. He stated that is why the people are questioning their relevance.
He made reference to Britain’s Exit (BREXIT) which he says brings regional integration into focus. “People are once again asking, ‘What is in it for me and my country?’”
He also question why are Heads of Government so “afraid to do more” with an organisation which has demonstrated time and time again that it can “punch over their weight in the international arena.”
Prime Minister Andrew Holness arrives at the National Cultural Centre
He also stated that the community has made a commitment to the people of the region, and the people must feel the tangible benefits of those commitments.
“On behalf of the previous Prime Ministers of St. Lucia, he reaffirmed a commitment to the effective and efficient Caribbean Community.”
He also spoke of impoverishment which needs to be seriously addressed.
Chastanet stated that one more day a citizen is impoverished, it is one more day that CARICOM heads fail in that mandate to provide a better life to its people.
Chastanet was among several Heads of Government including Desir’e Delano Bouterse, the President of Suriname; Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Andrew Holness, the Prime Minster of St. Lucia; and Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister of Dominica and Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM.
Other participating Heads of Government were: David Granger, President of Guyana; Gaston A. Browne, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Perry G. Christie, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas; Freundel Stuart, the Prime Minster of Barbados; Michael Chastanet, Prime Minister of Belize; Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada;; Jocelerme Privert, the New Interim President of Haiti; Donaldson Romeo, Premier of Montserrat; and Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis.
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