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St Kitts PM holds talks with CARICOM working group on good governance
Friday, July 28, 2006
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: CARICOM’s seven-person Technical Working Group (TWG) on Governance met with Caribbean Community Chairman and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas on Tuesday.
The Working Group has been consulting with Caribbean Heads of Government to review the proposals of the Rose Hall Declaration on Regional Governance; examine the reports from the Prime Ministerial Expert Group with a view to implementing the broad recommendations in whole or in part, paying attention to the establishment of the Commission; the automaticity in financing the New Governance arrangements and the Assembly of the Caribbean Community Parliamentarians (ACCP).
The Group, headed by former St Lucia Prime Minister, and former Director General of the OECS, Professor Dr Vaughn Lewis, has already held talks with the Prime Ministers of Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago and the Presidents of Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
In their talks with Prime Minister Douglas, the Group also discussed the recommendations of the think-tank on options for governance, which met at St. Augustine Campus, UWI in 2004.
The think-tank considered four options on the issue of the establishment of a CARICOM Commission or other Executive Mechanism. They were the use of the Community Method as the Institutional Operating Mode; improving the Existing Inter-Governmental System; use of the Community Method plus a Commission and a Hybrid Community/Inter-Governmental System and it was the view that further elaboration was necessary and that it should be the object of wider exchanges, including experiences elsewhere, and of a deeper analysis.
On the issue of the Assembly of the Caribbean Community Parliamentarians, which would comprise Government and opposition representatives, the annual deliberations will be centered on the Annual Report of the Secretary General, the work programme and budget of the Secretariat and review of progress in the implementation of the CSME.
It has been recommended that reports of the ACCP be tabled at national parliaments, that Assembly remain a forum for Parliamentarians and that the relationship with the Consultative Council for Civil Society be strengthened so as to provide an effective avenue for participation of non-governmental actors.
On the issue of the Restructuring of the CARICOM Secretariat members of the think-tank considered the Gomes/Archer Report and the paper “Summary of Issues by In-House Committee on the restructuring of the CARICOM Secretariat” and submitted their comments to the Secretary General.
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