Prime Minister backs Jamaica’s Kamina Johnson-Smith for Commonwealth SG

By Aaron Humes: At the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda, Jamaican Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith will bid for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General against Dominica-born Baroness Patricia Scotland who was elected to lead the Commonwealth Secretariat on a Caribbean Community (Caricom) ticket in 2015.

Speaking with the Jamaica Observer earlier this year, Belize’s Prime Minister John Briceño, who is also the current chairman of Caricom, says Johnson-Smith is the better choice.

Briceño says Johnson-Smith has the wealth of knowledge and experience that is needed to foster unity among developed and developing countries: “We are grateful to Baroness Scotland for her work. She came for the ICJ and tried to help Belize and they have helped us in trying to get some attorneys and some judges through the Commonwealth secretariat, so, we are grateful to her. But at the moment when we started to look at both candidates, Belize has decided that we are going to support foreign minister Kamina Johnson-Smith…The vision that she has in working together – that she can put countries to be able to work together where she is saying that no country can have development by itself there has to be cooperation between the developed countries and the developing countries like ours. I believe that she represents what we believe that the Commonwealth Secretariat needs and that is why Belize will support foreign minister Kamina Johnson-Smith.”

Belize joins India, the United Kingdom, and Trinidad and Tobago in support of Johnson-Smith.

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