Governance remains difficulty for Caricom

Edwin Carrington

Caricom Secretary General, Edwin Carrington, who demits office at the end of this month after more than 18 years at the helm of the regional grouping, says that governance remains an area of difficulty for the community.

Addressing the regional media via videoconference on Friday from the CARICOM Secretariat at what was his last news conference, he also singled out the Haiti earthquake as an unparalleled disaster in the region.

“The horrific, catastrophic disaster, that January 12 earthquake in Haiti, has cast a giant shadow over the community over the year 2010. Little has taken place which does not point back to … the need for response to Haiti arising from that devastating January 12 earthquake.”

He noted that this was further compounded by the cholera