| Secretary-General Carrington to step down at yearend |
| Thursday, 05 August 2010 | |
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CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington will be stepping down from his position on December 31, and he has notified the Heads of Government of the Community of his decision, a press release from the CARICOM Secretariat said yesterday. A national of Trinidad and Tobago, Carrington is the sixth Secretary-General of the Community and he was appointed in 1992 to succeed Roderick Rainford of Jamaica. “These last 18 years as Secretary-General have been the pinnacle of my public service career. I have, despite the odds, done all I could to help create a viable and secure Community for all. It has been a period of important achievements as well as significant disappointments. I leave satisfied and confident, however, that the Caribbean Community now has a solid platform on which to continue to build the integration movement,” the Secretary-General is quoted as saying. Carrington also said that he is looking forward to the opportunity to deal with some pressing family issues and to enjoy much more time with them. He also paid his family the highest tribute “for their patience, understanding and tremendous support during this long and arduous journey.”During his tenure, Carrington oversaw the revision of the Treaty of Chaguaramas and the consequent transition of the Community from a Common Market to a Single Market in 2006. Under his Secretary-Generalship, the platform is also being set for eventual evolution of the Community to include a Single Economy – the framework for which Heads of Government have undertaken to create by 2015. His term has also seen the establishment of a number of key institutions designed to put the integration process on a sound base, including the CCJ – Caribbean Court of Justice (2005); as well as CROSQ – the Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (2002); the CCCCC – Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (2005); the CCC – CARICOM Competition Commission (2008); and the CDF – CARICOM Development Fund (2008), the release stated. Carrington who is an economist by profession first joined the then Commonwealth Caribbean Secretariat in 1970 as Chief of Economics and Statistics, and rose to be Director of Trade and Integration before being appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States in 1976. He was subsequently elected Secretary-General of the ACP in 1985, the only Caribbean national, to date, to have held that position. In acknowledgement of his outstanding service to the ACP, Carrington Hall at the ACP Secretariat (Brussels) is named in his honour. On returning from Brussels in 1991, Carrington served as his country’s High Commissioner to Guyana before his appointment to his current position. Carrington is the longest serving Secretary-General of the Community in the service of which he has been the recipient of national awards from Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as well as from the Dominican Republic, Italy and Spain. As Secretary-General of CARICOM, Carrington also served as Secretary-General of CARIFORUM (comprising all the Member States of CARICOM except Montser-rat and comprising the Dominican Republic), the release concluded. |
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