CARICOM's Secretary General pleadges full support to Saint Lucia
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Contact: J. Hinkson Compton
Thursday 25 November 2010 – Secretary General of CARICOM, Doctor Edwin Carrington toured the south of the island this week, to oversee the damage done by Hurricane Tomas. As head of CARICOM, Dr. Carrington intends to take as much information as possible to the CARICOM Secretariat based in Georgetown Guyana in an effort to obtain assistance from the organization.
“We’ve heard of the devastation but it’s another matter to see it. Saint Lucia has been very hard hit by Tomas, to the point where the description which we have been given does not fully match the extent of the disaster we have seen. “Right behind us is a picture of the tremendous amount of mud and mudslide which have come down into this community. No report or journalist—with all respect to you—can truly convey the size, intensity, and awesome nature of the disaster that has actually occurred in Saint Lucia.”
Dr. Carrington noted the urgency of getting the CARICOM Secretariat involved in helping the island get back on its feet and returning lives of Saint Lucians to normalcy. When asked what services could be offered by the organization, Dr. Carrington had this to say.
“We have to help you. We need the information to send to the member states and that information must not only be words, it must also be video so that they can understand what we’re talking about. We also have the report which is being compiled by ECLAC and should be available tomorrow providing for us the hard technical and economic data analysis.”
The Head of the CARICOM Secretariat noted the urgency of getting his organization involved particularly because he is due to retire at the end of this year.
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