CARICOM SG gets second term

CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has been re-appointed to a second term of office.

CARICOM Chairman, Prime Minister of Belize, Mr. Dean Barrow, made the announcement during the Closing Press Conference of the CARICOM Heads of Government Inter-sessional Meeting in Belize, Wednesday.

The Secretary-General’s initial five year appointment ends in August, and Heads of Government decided to deal with the matter of his reappointment now because they felt the next meeting in July was too close to the August expiration date, the Chairman told the media.

“I’m pleased to say that there was unanimous agreement for the  SG’s reappointment”, Prime Minister Barrow disclosed.

“I want to make clear that on a personal note, I am as convinced as anyone else, and perhaps more so, that the Secretary-General has done an exemplary job.  His commitment to reform, the changes he has already made along the lines of obliging the Secretariat and the Community to become more productive, more efficacious, are well known, and he has done all this while remaining throughout, extremely even tempered and accessible. I am pleased to say what a tremendous job of work this Secretary-General has done,” the Prime Minister said.