End of preview - This article contains approximately 1329 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 08 July 2010 (WR-10-27)
CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN: Caricom wrestles to justify its relevance
Leaders of the 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) met in Montego
Bay, Jamaica, between 4 and 7 July against a backdrop of mounting criticism of
Caricom as a failed integration movement. The Jamaica Gleaner produced
a searing editorial branding Caricom an unmitigated failure and calling on
leaders to have the honesty either to accept it as such and dissolve the union
or make a concerted effort to look beyond myopic self-interest and shake-up the
regional entity. The fact that just seven of the 15 leaders bothered to turn up
for the summit was a telling indictment, but those who did come spoke candidly
about the need for a fundamental structural overhaul of Caricom to justify its
continuance.
- Alliance surpasses expectations in Mexican gubernatorial elections
- TRACKING TRENDS
- ECUADOR-VENEZUELA: Chávez and Correa seek to build regional unity
- BOLIVIA: Autonomy law exposes indigenous frustration
- PERU: Government changes tack in Amazon dispute
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Candidates flesh out plans for government
- PARAGUAY: Lugo presents annual report to congress
- TRACKING TRENDS
- CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN: Caricom wrestles to justify its relevance
- CUBA: Dozens of political prisoners to be freed
- PANAMA: Martinelli comes clean on Farc presence
- COSTA RICA: US military presence sparks concern
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Correa sends confused signals to Santos
- Quotes of the week