The Caricom communiqué

It is a good thing that we had no great expectations going into last weekend’s meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of Caricom, at Frigate Bay, St Kitts, as we cannot really complain of any great disappointment that no decisions of any consequence appear to have been taken there.

To be fair, however, the resulting summit communiqué was not written in the usual opaque, generally uninformative language to which we have become accustomed in recent times. If anything, there seems to have been a conscious decision on the part of the drafters of the communiqué to cut down on the diplomatic waffle, at least in the early paragraphs, as they threatened to produce a more tightly written document. Perhaps this was all the better to give