Caricom team to monitor Antigua polls

Orrette Fisher

An 11-member Electoral Observer Mission from the Caribbean Community is in Antigua and Barbuda to monitor national elections set for today.

The Caricom Electoral Observer Mission is led by Jamaica’s Director of Elections Orrette Fisher who is in the country on the invitation of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, a press statement from the Caricom Secretariat said. The group also includes representatives from the following Caricom member states: The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dom-inica, Grenada, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago and two staff members from the Caricom Secretariat.

The Advance Group, including Fisher and the staff members of the Caricom Secretariat arrived on the