CARICOM Secretary-General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque on Tuesday called on the Community Council to equip the CARICOM Secretariat to be the change agent that it required.
Delivering an address at the opening of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers, held on Tuesday in Georgetown, the Secretary-General said that the Secretariat appreciated the challenging circumstances which member states faced, and it had responded to those challenges by freezing its budget from 2008 to 2010 and having its budget cut in 2011, said a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat at Turkeyen.
He noted, however, that any further cuts without