CARICOM members are to vote for the Commonwealth Secretary General candidate of their choice at the upcoming Heads of Government of Government meeting in Rwanda.
This comes after an apparent failure at a consensus on one of the two regional candidates: the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland and the nominee of Jamaica, its Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith. Guyana has not yet signalled who it will vote for.
A statement from CARICOM Chairman, John Antonio Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize follows.
“An election for the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth will take place during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which takes place 20-25 June 2022, in Kigali, Rwanda.
“The Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community maintains that it is still the turn of the Caribbean to provide a candidate for the position.
“In that regard, two candidates from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been nominated for the post, the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland and Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica.
“Member States of the Community will vote for the candidate of their choice”.
