CARICOM Heads of Government


The following is a list of heads of government of member states of CARICOM:

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:
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, 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:
  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 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, from the councils of the Caribbean Community and was not recognized as the legitimate government, hence its leaders aren't listed.