Caricom leaders are to attend a two-day retreat here to discuss the way forward for the regional integration movement.
This was revealed in the communiqué released after the leaders met at their two-day intersessional February 25-26 in Grand Anse, Grenada.
The communiqué said that the leaders had accepted an invitation from President Bharrat Jagdeo for a special two-day retreat here to discuss the way forward for Caricom prior to their regular meeting in St Kitts in July.
The communiqué said: “Heads of Government believed that CARICOM’s leadership, at all levels, should acknowledge the protracted challenges and the urgency of arresting the associated perception of decline. The most urgent need was not for broad new decision-making; it was for implementing decisions already made and embodied in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and living by the spirit of unity and collective action that inspired the Grand Anse Declaration which preceded it.
“In this context, they accepted the invitation of the President of Guyana for a special two day Retreat in Guyana confined to discussing the way forward for CARICOM, to be held between now and their Regular Meeting in St. Kitts and Nevis in July 2011.”
