The Government of Guyana yesterday declared its support for Antigua and Barbuda’s candidate for the position of Commonwealth Secretary General (SG), Guyana-born Sir Ronald Sanders.
The announcement of support in a statement came six months into the life of the APNU+AFC administration and amid ongoing division in the Commonwealth Caribbean over who should be the candidate. The new SG is to be chosen on Friday when the Commonwealth Heads convene in Malta.
By the principle of rotation it is the Caribbean’s turn to nominate a successor to India’s Kamalesh Sharma. However, the Caricom countries that are members of the Commonwealth have bickered for nearly two years over who the candidate should be. The other candidate remaining in the race from the Caribbean is UK peer,
