Making the Family Real

Oct 07, 2013

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The Caricom Secretary General came to town last week and managed to deliver a lecture distinguished mainly by its silence on two of the most explosive issues in the Caribbean. 
Within 24 hours of his lecture, one of them broke wide open. The Caribbean Court of Justice’s decision delivered last Friday in Port of Spain in the Shanique Myrie case has made integration more real to Caribbean people than all the decades of communiqués and Heads of Government meetings put together.
Among those driven by historic fear and modern-day insecurities, it struck a note of immediate panic.

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