On this issue, Prime Minster Arthur of Barbados who has lead responsibility for the implementation of the CSME commented as follows: “Our Caribbean Community has been conceived to be a comm unity of Sovereign States. Each sovereign state in such an arrangement retains exclusive powers in relation to the implementation of community decisions.
There is also no provision for the transfer of sovereignty to any supranational regional institutions and there is no body of community law that takes precedence over domestic legislation”.