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The Secretary General of the Caribbean Community is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community and the head of its principal administrative organ, the CARICOM Secretariat.
According to both the Original [1] and Revised [2] Treaty of Chaguaramas, the Secretary-General is appointed by the Conference of Heads of Government, on the recommendation of the Community Council of Ministers (and previously the Common Market Council in the Original Treaty), for a term not exceeding five years and may be reappointed by the Conference.
The Secretary-General, subject to the Organs of the Community and in accordance with various regulations, performs the following functions:
The current Secretary-General is Carla Barnett (Belize), who was elected in May 2021 to succeed Irwin LaRocque (Dominica; appointed in 2011) as secretary-general.[1]
All Secretaries-General, including the Secretaries-General of CARIFTA, have resided at Colgrain House on Camp Street, Georgetown, Guyana.[2]
Caribbean Free Trade Agreement | |||
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Name | Beginning of term | End of term | Country |
Frederick L. Cozier[3][4] | 1968 | 1969 | Barbados |
William Demas[5] | 1969 | 1973 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Caribbean Community | |||
Name | Beginning of term | End of term | Country |
William Demas | 1973 | 1974 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Sir Alister McIntyre | 1974 | August 1977 | Grenada |
Joseph Tyndall (acting) | August 1977 | August 1978 | Guyana |
Kurleigh King | November 1978 | September 1983 | Barbados |
Roderick Rainford | September 1983 | August 1992 | Jamaica |
Edwin W. Carrington | August 1992 | December 2010 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Lolita Applewhaite (acting) | January 2011 | August 2011 | Barbados |
Irwin LaRocque[6] | August 2011 | August 2021 | Dominica |
Carla Barnett[7] | August 2021 | present | Belize |
The second (and last) Secretary-General of CARIFTA, Mr. William Demas, became the first Secretary-General of the CARICOM. Mr. Demas had been instrumental in the transition from CARIFTA to the Caribbean Community, publishing a booklet in 1972 entitled "From CARIFTA to the Caribbean Community" wherein he outlined policies for deepening the integration process.[8]