CARICOM CIVAIR: CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS ON A

UNCLAS KINGSTON 001033 SIPDIS STATE FOR WHA/CAR (BENT) AND EB/TRA (MATTINGLEY) E.O. 12958: NA TAGS: EAIR GY XL JM SUBJECT: CARICOM CIVAIR: CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS ON A BILATERAL BASIS - COURTESY LETTER DELIVERED REF: STATE 063882 ¶1. Econoff delivered the letter provided in reftel to Angela Brown, Director for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on April ¶11. Brown did not have any immediate comment. ¶2. Econoff informally conveyed reftel information to Colonel Torrence Lewis, Director General of the Jamican Civil Aviation Authority on April 8. Lewis said that Jamaica and the USG had made good use of their bilateral relationship in the past, and he expected to do so in the future. He commented that CARICOM was a good organization to be a part of, but that it had a tendency to be very slow in building member consensus. TIGHE