Regional Negotiating Machinery losing status
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2009 | 1:28 PM
CARICOM’s Regional Negotiating Machinery is to be dissolved.
It will be absorbed by the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana.
Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson says the decision on the region was made collectively by the heads of government.
The leaders reportedly agreed that new institutional arrangements are necessary.
However former Antiguan high commissioner to London, Sir Ronald Sanders is against the move.
He believes putting the Regional Negotiating Machinery under the umbrella body of CARICOM, without a drastic change of the region’s governance will not solve the problems.