والجماعة ترحب أيضا بالبعثتين اللتين اضطلع بهما المقرر الخاص في غيانا وفي ترينيداد وتوباغو لمناقشة العلاقات القائمة فيما بين الفئات العرقية.
CARICOM applauded the work of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and his participation in a series of international, regional and national consultations, workshops, seminars and discussions, particularly the "Regional Workshop on Strategies for the adoption and Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies for Populations of African Descent in Latin America and the Caribbean" held in Montevideo, Uruguay in May 2003.