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THE MONTHLY GLEANER | MAY 17 - JUNE 16, 2021 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | NEWS 6 Courtenay Rattray appointed as High Representative for the Least Developed Countries UNITED NATIONS Secretary General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Courtenay Rattray of Jamaica as High Representative for the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States. CARICOM heads select first woman as next secretary general CARICOM HEADS of government agreed unanimously for Dr Carla Barnett, a national of Belize, to be- come the next secretary general. Barnett is the first woman and the first Belizean to be selected for the post. She will replace Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, who is completing his second term. She will assume office on August 15. October trial for Grindley and Bahado-Singh AN OCTOBER trial date has been scheduled in the fraud matter involving former Petrojam general manager Floyd Grindley and his former chairman Dr Perceval Bahado-Singh. Both accused will be tried in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court between October 27 and 29. Bothmen were axed in 2018 as a multimillion-dollar corruption scandal alleging irregularities, nepotism and cronyism engulfed Petrojam. It also led to the resignation of Dr AndrewWheatley, then energy minister. Dr Carla Barnett Rattray BRIEFS