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Friday, February 28, 2025

CARICOM accepts invitation to send Election Observers

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38 days ago
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The official flag of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The official flag of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

CARI­COM has ac­cept­ed the in­vi­ta­tion ex­tend­ed by the Gov­ern­ment to send elec­tion ob­servers to the coun­try.

Ac­cord­ing to the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­istry, CARI­COM Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Dr Car­la Bar­nett, in a let­ter to the Prime Min­is­ter dat­ed Jan­u­ary 13, said:

"The CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at is ful­ly pre­pared to un­der­take the nec­es­sary ad­min­is­tra­tive arrange­ments for the de­ploy­ment of a CARI­COM Elec­tion Ob­ser­va­tion Team to Trinidad and To­ba­go when­ev­er we re­ceive fur­ther in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the sched­ul­ing of the elec­tions."

In the Low­er House on De­cem­ber 9, 2024, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced that he had writ­ten to the CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at re­quest­ing an ob­serv­er del­e­ga­tion to this coun­try, when­ev­er the elec­tion takes place. The cor­re­spon­dence was sent on De­cem­ber 11, 2024.

In her re­sponse let­ter, Dr Bar­nett al­so re­port­ed­ly said:

"We are ho­n­oured to sup­port the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and all Mem­ber States hold­ing elec­tions in 2025, in con­tin­ued ef­forts to up­hold democ­ra­cy, the rule of law and good gov­er­nance with­in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty. We will do so to the best of our abil­i­ties."


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