CARICOM heads of government

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The following is a list of heads of government of the members states of CARICOM:

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Leaders

NationHead of governmentName of head of governmentIn office since
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg  Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne 13 June 2014
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis 16 September 2021
Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley 24 May 2018
Flag of Belize.svg  Belize Prime Minister Johnny Briceño 12 November 2020
Flag of Dominica.svg  Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit 8 January 2004
Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell 24 June 2022
Flag of Guyana.svg  Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali 2 August 2020
Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti President of Haiti Transitional Presidential Council 25 April 2024
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness 3 March 2016
Flag of Montserrat.svg  Montserrat Prime Minister Easton Taylor-Farrell 19 November 2019
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis.svg  Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew 6 August 2022
Flag of Saint Lucia.svg  Saint Lucia Prime Minister Philip Pierre 28 July 2021
Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves 29 March 2001
Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname President Chan Santokhi 16 July 2020
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley 9 September 2015

CARICOM Past Leaders

Only those persons who have been leaders since their country became a member of CARICOM are listed. The leaders are listed in order of their terms, with leaders serving twice only being listed in order of their first term:

Portfolios

Heads of Government have also established a Quasi-Cabinet arrangement to further advance specific issues/areas within the Community. The decision to establish the Quasi-Cabinet was taken at their Seventh Special Meeting (October 1999, Trinidad and Tobago), convened to deliberate on a Vision for the future of the Region. Within the Quasi-Cabinet, individual Heads of Government have responsibility for critical areas of Community Development.

The Quasi-Cabinet Portfolio allocation is set out overleaf.

As part of efforts to strengthen the Quasi-Cabinet functioning, Heads of Government undertook a review of the Portfolio allocations in July 2010, at their Thirty-First Regular Meeting held in Jamaica

These are some of the areas which have been assigned: (both officially and by national special interest.)

References

  1. "URGENT-BARBADOS-DEATH-Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is dead". Caribbean News Agency (CANA). Archived from the original on 2010-10-26. Retrieved 23 October 2010. Deputy Prime Minister Freundel Stuart notified members of the Cabinet of the prime minister's death during the early hours of Saturday.

2. www.caricom.org

Footnotes

  1. Note that for Guyana only the past Presidents are listed. In most instances the past Presidents of Guyana since it joined CARICOM were also past Prime Ministers at some point. Only Arthur Chung and Cheddi Jagan have never been Prime Ministers. Prime Ministers of Guyana (since it joined CARICOM) that were never Presidents at some point were Ptolemy Reid, Hamilton Green and Moses Nagamootoo.
  2. The head of the interim government in Haiti, which was installed under controversial circumstances had been suspended, (as of 2004) from the councils of the Caribbean Community and was not recognized as the legitimate government, hence its leaders aren't listed.

See also