Let’s decide, do we leave or go forward with CARICOM?

Jun 24, 2013

KINGSTON. Jamaica - This Tuesday, Jamaica gets what we believe may be a last chance to make up our minds whether we cut the umbilical cord between us and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and strike out alone on an uncertain future outside of the regional bloc.
Foreign Minister Arnold J Nicholson, very correctly in our view, has invited some of the best brains and leadership in Jamaica to engage with him on discussing how to move forward in our engagement with CARICOM. We wholeheartedly endorse this act of wisdom typical of the minister.
That crucial meeting at Dominica Drive, New Kingston will be attended by the top echelons of the private sector, academia, civil society and Government. It will mark a watershed moment in our long journey from the failed West Indies Federation, the political union which was supposed to have been "good for the young and the old..."

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