00:00The attorney at law and former Senate president says that while CARICOM remains important,
00:06it cannot be supported if its operating policies and procedures are not effective.
00:12He suggests that in his view, a shake-up or revamp of its current direction may be necessary.
00:19Sometimes you need disruption, really, to go back to the central goal.
00:23And she refers to it, I think you said, as an old boys club.
00:28Yes.
00:29You know, if that's how you operate, then in fact you lose track of what is important.
00:35The prime minister has criticized CARICOM over the reappointment process of Secretary General Carla Barnett,
00:42describing it as corrupt and flawed.
00:45Her comments have drawn mixed reactions across the region.
00:48However, Hamil Smith tells the TV6 Morning Edition he will not say if the prime minister is right or wrong,
00:55but he believes CARICOM needs to revisit its vision and how decisions are made.
01:02Sometimes it is that you need to get people to look inward.
01:08Processes, obviously, were not properly, I think, documented.
01:16How you go about doing something appears to be what we might call vikivai, ad hoc, as it were.
01:22And that's not good for an institutional body that is seen as a CARICOM representative of 16 nations, 19 million
01:33people or so.
01:34He also references the recent vote in which Trinidad and Tobago was reportedly left out,
01:40saying it raises further questions about regional processes.
01:43Weiss, the chairman of CARICOM, may be right legally, you know,
01:50yes, we had it under this umbrella of governance.
01:55That, I think, falls short of the kind of visibility you need to give to an issue such as the
02:04chief executive officer.
02:06Some way questions.
02:07That should be front and center on the...
02:09Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
02:13Yes.
02:13No time.irstor.
02:13touch You No
02:14No
02:14No time.
02:14No
02:14time.
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