Governance mechanisms of CARICOM need reform – Prime Minister Mottley
Chair of CARICOM, the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, addresses the opening ceremony of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM
Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Hon, Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, said that there is need for reform of the governance mechanisms of CARICOM.
Prime Minister Mottley raised the issue of governance of the Region in her address to the opening of the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on Wednesday in Bridgetown, Barbados.
She recognised that there may be need for a “greater political voice alongside the administrative structures of CARICOM as we have come to know it over the past few decades.”
Prime Minister Mottley said also that the “time upon us to settle the independent funding of the institution.”
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