THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will observe tomorrow’s general elections in Antigua/Barbuda. CARICOM has mounted an eleven-member Electoral Observer Mission, led by Jamaica’s Director of Elections, Mr. Orrette Fisher. The team, with nine officials drawn from CARICOM Member States and two from the CARICOM Secretariat, began arriving in Antigua/Barbuda on Friday last.
Other members of the mission are: Ian Browne,the deputy Chief Elections Officer of Barbados; Barrette Woodye of the Belize Elections and Boundaries Department; Henry George, former Dominica Parliamentarian; Chester Humphrey, trade unionist and former Senator in the Grenada Parliament; Pauline Welsh of the Electoral Office in Jamaica; Windgrove George, Supervisor of Elections in St. Kitts Nevis; Lena Champa Sahadeo, deputy Chief Elections Officer of Trinidad and Tobago; and Dennisia Francisco and Serojnie Seetaram of the CARICOM Secretariat.
Antigua/Barbuda is part of the fifteen-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
The Caribbean Community was established through the signing of the Treaty of Chaguaramas in 1973. A revised Treaty was signed in 2001.