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CARICOM Pleased With Consultation In Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Change Facilitation Team says it is satisfied at the response by Guyanese nationals at the national consultations on a five-year strategic plan for the regional integration movement.

The Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said that the strategic plan is a critical part of the reform process within CARICOM as mandated by regional leaders.

The strategic plan will, among other things, identify the priority areas of focus for the Community and guide the restructuring of the Secretariat. CARICOM Secretary-General, Irwin LaRocque, is leading the change process at the Secretariat and has initiated some corporate reforms within the organization while awaiting the completion of the Strategic Plan.

The facilitation team which has a three-year mandate is being assisted with resources from the Government of the United Kingdom through the Department for International Development (DFID) and began work in the CARICOM Secretariat last November.

Maria Mason-Roberts, who spoke on behalf of the members of the team, said they had received “very solid recommendations and ideas have been put forward” and praised the local organizers for the success of the deliberations.

Similar consultations have so far been held in Barbados and following the Guyana meeting the CARICOM Secretariat said other national consultations will in Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago next month.

Sessions will be held in The Bahamas, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis in October.

“These consultations are intended to address the vision, mission and core values of the Caribbean Community; Priority areas for the attention of the Community in the period 2014-18; and the most appropriate and efficient governance and management structures for the Community,” the CARICOM statement said.

Mason-Roberts indicated that over the course of the consultations here, the team met with all the targeted groups and the process would continue subsequently with a wider engagement of the general public in order to get the widest possible participation and feedback from the process.

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