Incumbent Commonwealth secretary-general fires a shot across the bow of a rival Caribbean candidate, and the region is taking note

L-R: Photo of Jamaica’s candidate for the post of Commonwealth secretary-general, Kamina Johnson Smith, by World Trade Organization/Cuika Foto on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0; and photo of the incumbent, Patricia Scotland, by The Commonwealth on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0. Caribbean netizens are becoming increasingly interested in the competition for the post of Commonwealth secretary-general, which has turned out to be a race between two women claiming the region: the incumbent, Patricia Scotland, who was born in Dominica and raised in the UK, and Jamaican politician Kamina Johnson Smith, whose decision to…

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