CARICOM meetings moved, rescheduled

Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), H E Edwin Carrington.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 28, 2009 – Two major Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meetings, one of which was to discuss progress and the way forward in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), won’t take place in Barbados this week after all.

The CARICOM Secretariat has confirmed that the Fifth Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on CSME scheduled for this Friday, and the Special Committee of Heads of Governments Meeting on the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) slated for the following day, have now been rescheduled.
 
CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington said both meetings will now be held in Belize in March.

He said the change in dates and venue was “due to developments which have made it impossible for certain Heads of Government to attend the meetings”

It is now proposed that the meetings will be convened on March 10 and 11, immediately preceding the 20th Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government scheduled for March 12 and 13.