PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC -The Guyana-based Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) Secretariat has accepted an invite from the Trinidad and Tobago authorities to ship observers to the nation’s subsequent common elections, prone to be held in August this 12 months.
“The Secretary-Common of CARICOM, Dr Carla Barnett, has accepted the invitation prolonged to the CARICOM Secretariat by Dr the Honourable Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, to deploy an election remark mission to supervise this 12 months’s common elections,” in accordance with an announcement issued by the Workplace of the Prime Minister (OPM).
It mentioned that Rowley had promised to ask a CARICOM delegation to look at the ballot every time it was known as when he addressed Parliament on December 9, final 12 months.
The OPM mentioned that the “correspondence was despatched” to the CARICOM Secretariat on December 11, 2024, and that Barnett accepted the invitation in a letter dated January 13, 2025.
“The CARICOM Secretariat is absolutely ready to undertake the mandatory administrative preparations to deploy a CARICOM election remark group to Trinidad and Tobago every time we obtain additional data relating to the scheduling of the elections.
“We’re honored to help the Authorities of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and all member states holding elections in 2025 in continued efforts to uphold democracy, the rule of legislation, and good governance throughout the Caribbean Neighborhood. We are going to achieve this to the perfect of our talents,” Barnett wrote within the letter.
The OPM assertion mentioned the federal government stays dedicated to Trinidad and Tobago’s custom of “free, truthful, and clear elections” and welcomed CARICOM’s choice to just accept the invitation to look at the election.
The principle opposition, the United Nationwide Congress (UNC), has known as for international observers for the final election later this 12 months.
The ruling Folks’s Nationwide Motion’s (PNM) second consecutive time period of workplace ends in August, however it’s extensively anticipated that the polls could possibly be held earlier than that month. Stuart Younger, the Minister of Power, who is predicted to switch Prime Minister Rowley in March, is searching for a recent mandate from the inhabitants.
