PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Former CARICOM and international affairs minister, Dr. Amery Browne, is questioning the non-representation on the highest political stage of Trinidad and Tobago on the simply concluded Africa and Caribbean Group summit held in Ethiopia final weekend.
Browne stated that it was the “most absurd” assertion by his successor, Sean Sobers, that the nation was represented on the summit by an appearing everlasting secretary and a divisional director within the Ministry.
“In actuality, a Summit have to be attended by the Head of Authorities or the best stage of different, eg, the Minister of International Affairs. With no rationale or rationalization, they made the cavalier choice to ship an appearing perm sec and a divisional director from throughout the Ministry to symbolize our nation at this Summit in Ethiopia,” Browne wrote on his Fb web page.
He stated that the non-appearance of the Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar or Sobers “is an extra insult to CARICOM and to the African Union as nicely”
Since taking workplace in April this yr, Prime Minister Persad Bissessar has additionally missed the annual CARICOM summit, which was held in Jamaica in July.
“Discussions are being held on the political and Head of Authorities stage that will form the very way forward for this vital linkage throughout the Atlantic, and sending public servants at a decrease stage ensures that you’ve little to no voice within the course of.”
Browne stated that to make issues worse, Sobers then drew a “mind-boggling comparability” with the illustration of Guyana and Jamaica on the summit, “when everybody is aware of that neither of these nations had sworn of their new Cupboards when the Summit was being convened”.
Amongst he CARICOM leaders who attended the summit have been the incoming CARICOM chairman, Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew of St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Grenada’s Dickon Mitchell, Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, Philip Davis of The Bahamas), and the area’s longest serving head of presidency, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
