‘It cannot be business as usual’ – new CARICOM SG

New Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque paying a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett yesterday after he was installed at a ceremony at the Caricom Secretariat. (GINA photo)

Ambassador Irwin LaRocque yesterday morning became CARICOM’s seventh Secretary-General and identified the reformation of “the architecture and governance of our integration arrangements” as key if the Secretariat is to be more effective in its mandate.

Speaking at a simple ceremony at the Secretariat to mark his appointment, the Dominica-born LaRocque outlined the importance of the reviews commissioned by the CARICOM Heads