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'Public sector is the key'
by Daily Nation
Posted: Jul 17, 2009 12:37 UTC
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GEORGETOWN - Caricom Secretary General Edwin Carrington says the public service is critical to advancing regional integration arrangements, in his address at the Caribbean Centre of Development Administration (CARICAD) meeting last Wednesday.
"The public service must be made aware of their integral role in advancing the objectives and implementing the decisions of the Caribbean Community," Carrington told the 29th CARICAD board meeting held at the CARICOM Secretariat.
In a press release CARICOM said CARICAD focuses through various interventions, on upgrading and strengthening the managerial capability of the public sector for the more effective implementation of public policy across the region.
The Secretary General acknowledged CARICAD's role in boosting the efficiency of the public sector by employing technology, and in connecting with the Region. He also told the meeting that the other "key core" factor of the regional integration arrangements was its human resources.
Carrington said the public service's role in advancing the integration process is critical as public officers are at the forefront and in a position to make an impact.
"Unless there is a commitment to the idea of regional integration by the people on the frontline, no amount of technology will move the process forward," he said.
It was against this backdrop, that Carrington said that the Conference Of Heads Of Government at its 30th regular meeting had agreed on the importance of training and sensitising public officers, particularly immigration officers.
He said such training is critical as the community's decisions "lies essentially in the province of member states."
"The CARICOM Secretariat and the regional institutions have their role in facilitating and co-ordinating, cannot implement at the national level; whether it is in agriculture, free movement, contingent rights, security and investment" Carrington said. (Stabroek News)
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