Dr. Car­la Bar­nett, Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM), is re­mem­ber­ing Sir Shri­dath Ram­phal, call­ing him ” stal­wart of our Com­mu­ni­ty.”

In a state­ment, Dr. Bar­nett hon­ored Sir Shri­dath’s dis­tin­guished ca­reer in diplo­ma­cy, law, acad­e­mia, and pol­i­tics. She high­light­ed his sig­nif­i­cant im­pact both in his na­tive Guyana and through­out the Caribbean and the Com­mon­wealth.

Dr. Bar­nett praised Sir Shri­dath’s ded­i­ca­tion to re­gion­al­ism, not­ing his prac­ti­cal con­tri­bu­tions, in­clud­ing his lead­er­ship of the West In­di­an Com­mis­sion, which pro­duced the in­flu­en­tial 1992 re­port “Time for Ac­tion.” She al­so ac­knowl­edged his role as head of the CARI­COM Re­gion­al Ne­go­ti­at­ing Ma­chin­ery in ex­ter­nal trade ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Among his many hon­ors, Sir Shri­dath re­ceived the Or­der of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty in 1992, the Re­gion’s high­est award, recog­nis­ing his ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions.