Dr Carla Barnett has not been the kind of secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) this newspaper had hoped for. She has not interpreted her mandate or fashioned her leadership as a transformative force — sometimes being ahead of heads of government, prodding, probing, and engaging the region’s citizens to get the community to do more, faster. To be that kind of secretary general, she would have needed an expansive and creative vision of her role, as established in the CARICOM treaty and set out in her job description.