How will the CSME operate in principal?
While the CSM will maintain individual state sovereignty, member states will have specific portfolio assignments. Barbados’ portfolio, for example, is the CSME, including the Monetary Union, while Antigua and Barbuda is responsible for Services, including Information Technology and Telecommunications. For Belize, it is Sustainable Development, including Environment and Disaster Management and Water, while Dominica is responsible for Labour, including Intra-Community Movement of Skills. Grenada has the portfolio of Science and Technology; Guyana, Agriculture and Food Security; Jamaica, External Trade Negotiations; St Kitts and Nevis, Health, including HIV/AIDS and Human Resource Development; St Lucia, Justice and Governance; and St Vincent and the Grenadines, Bananas and Air Transport. For Suriname, its portfolio responsibility is that of Community Development and Cultural Co-operation, including Culture, Gender, Youth and Sport, and Trinidad and Tobago has Security as this relates to D
