CARICOM Sends Electoral Mission to Observe St Lucia Vote

By: - November 25th, 2011

By the Caribbean Journal staff

CARICOM will send a mission of electoral observers to oversee the vote in St Lucia on Monday, with a 10 member team.

The officials will be headed by Chief of Mission Amb. Rudy Collins of Guyana; the Deputy Chief of Mission is Eugene Petty of St Kitts and Nevis.

Other members include Anthonyson King of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize’s Paula Dawson, St Vincent’s Ambassador to CARICOM, Ellsworth John; Sadhna Dulam Getrouwd Gouri and Kenneth Karijomenggolo of Suriname and Howard Cayenne of Trinidad and Tobago.

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