John Myers, Staff ReporterTHE CARIBBEAN Community (CARICOM) Prime Ministerial Expert Group on Governance agreed on the establishment of a CARICOM commission as an executive machinery to propel and administrate over issues of regional integration. The group met at Jamaica House yesterday.
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and chairman of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Expert Group, told The Sunday Gleaner it was agreed that an executive decision-making mechanism to be called the CARICOM Commission, will be set up to carry out the implementation of all the policies articulated and agreed on at CARICOM level.
DEEPEST FORM OF INTEGRATION
"What you have now is the deepest form of integration outside the European Union and you want the decisions taken implemented," Dr. Gonsalves explained. "You couldn't use the existing administrative institutional arrangements; that is why we have to alter them," he further explained.
He said it had been suggested at the meeting that the commission be
established with four commissioners
comprising the chairman or president, the
CARICOM secretary-general, the head of the Regional Negotiating Machinery and one other person to be appointed by the CARICOM Heads of Government.
The CARICOM Prime Ministerial Expert Group includes: Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St. Lucia and Antigua and Barbuda.
