Clash over CARICOM - Let’s take a break!

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Jul 15, 2013

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The following is an edited version of a speech delivered to the Lions Club of Kingston recently.
Many Jamaicans are still uncertain as to the net benefits of our membership of CARICOM. The primary concern has been our trading relations with Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) within this free-trade framework.
The Jamaica-T&T trade issue has been caught up in a plethora of misinformation, misunderstandings and even cunning manipulation, with strong views for and against the call for review and radical reform to these existing arrangements within the CARICOM treaty.

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