Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves has urged CARICOM’s founding member states to exhibit greater leadership, saying that uneven development of the movement could be due to domestic concerns taking priority over optimal regional activity.
In his address at the 32nd Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government, held in St Kitts and Nevis last Thursday, Gonsalves stressed the importance of leadership by the “Big Four”—Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago—adding that the region could ill afford the luxury of “such relative non-engagement.”
Gonsalves said that if such a situation existed among the founding member states, it inevitably led to the diminution of engagement by others.
