Prime Minister Arthur sees the problem not in terms of political commitment but in terms of the political form of integration that has been applied.
He noted, in the speech to the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce last year that, “CARICOM is a community of sovereign states in which each nation retains exclusive powers relative to the implementation of decisions made at the regional level. Accordingly, the pace of implementation of regional decisions has, in many cases been set by the urgency of the slowest member”.