Consultations in Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries have revealed that there is a consensus that “some form of supranational authority must be kept alive”, according to Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque.
However serious challenges have to be addressed if the integration process is to move forward and made more meaningful to the people of the region, he said.
LaRocque was delivering a lecture on the status of the Regional Integration Process and Vision for the Future of Caricom. A release from the Caricom Secretariat said that LaRocque’s lecture in early October was the first of a series at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine,