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CARI-go has been from its inception a huge drawback on the development of the region.
We have seen it act as a cloak for ineffective administrations and stupid politicians as they leave all critical developmental decisions in the hands of a cash-starved and powerless bureaucracy.
Meetings of the Heads of Government often serve no greater purpose than as talk-shops of the inept, as tehy bleat and recant their abundant ignorance regarding the way forward with repect to the harmonious dove-tailing of national and regional goals.
What we have left for example, with such pearls of wisdom from William Demas is that we educate the youth in regional tertiary bodies, just enough to do the routine so as not to become part of the brain drain!
With this has gone all considerations regarding creativity and innovation with respect to problem solving.
We such an attitude, we have seen the resulting monotonous production of graduates from UWI, who can scarcely rub two ideas together and come with a third.
These products have now found themselves in government, have become the political directorates in the region, and are all but just figureheads who do all their thinking by wringing their hands in response to every domestic, regional and global challenge.
The chokehold of Guyanese socialism for example provided national participants to regional meetings with escape routes to buy and enjoy what they were internally deprived.
So CARICOM is reduced to a talkshop which produces meetings which decides mainly on holding more meetings.
The pattern has been set and is unlikely to be broken with the body still headquartered in backward and dysfunctional Guyana.
Ronald, this was a very disingenuous article. You failed to inform on the circumstances that would make CARICOM "irrelevant or essential to the future of these countries. You were so lazy that you didn't find it neccessary to mention the political and technical constrainsts that stagnates the development of these countries . Shame on you!
CARICOM has been irrelevant for may years now, just let it die once and for all.
Though CARICOM can become an effective developmental tool for the region, over the years it has been almost irrelevant. Irrelevant in that outside of the Heads of Government meetings, CARICOM is not even a thought. It is never brought up in local discussions or politics. Some of our politicians do not even understand the ramifications (pro or con). I do believe they (the politicians) have done the region a dis-service.
Talk about the fiscal cliff? Some islands are already over it. The question now is "what effect this will have or rather is having on the region"? Well, it not pretty. Already the CDB has been downgraded - a problem for borrowing and lending; a greater focus on local issues rather than regional issues - CARICOM will be on the back burner; Recently Barbados was downgraded and there is talk of devaluation of BB$. This is just to highlight a few issues.
I think the closest thing to integration in the region is OECS. Yes the OECS countries have their issues but with persistence and sweat it can survive to become the catalyst for regional integration.
More to come . . .
CARICOM & OECS These are organisations that really are only instutions where our leaders talk and have meetings and use the poor peoples money to buy luxury vehicles to run leaders around while the actual grass roots people suffer and ultimately pay for the show.
Ronald has been writing about the RUM matters which affects many countries in this region. Do you think any action has started to stop the mighty USA. Seriously ?
NOT. We are still in the talking phase. So lets loose the Industry. Then lets go cap in hand to get some funds to replace that which we have lost.
It sure appears to me that we in these islands like to be dictated to like in the past days of Salvery.
When will it change ? I doubt ever.
I like some of Ronald's articles but sometimes I think this man needs to get a life. How about spending holiday season drinking some egg nog and chilling out for once. The world is is filled of problems and the Caribbean is no different. I think for a few days out of a year we can at least not have to worry of how bad things are. These articles around this time of year is nausiating.
29th December 2012
2013 –CARICOM irrelevant or essential?
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Short answer: Essentially irrelevant.
Give the people understanable information,and they will make better choices when selecting their leaders.Make them feel that they have a say in the game. Stop talking at them, talk to them!
Happy New Year!
A bureacracy that is not independently financed is beholden to the PMs of the day.
An Antiguan PM, for example, notoriously withheld agreed budgetary contributions to that body, whenever there was even a hint of criticism of his government by that CARICOM institution.
Yet, we all saw the profoundity of the corruption that lay beneath the surface in that OECS country after the facade came down.
The so-called political scientists and journals were mute.
We have to hold our noses.
The entire CARICOM idea reeks of political nastiness and futility, from the horse-trading selection of top officers, through to the characteristically insignificant outcomes of the Heads-of-government meetings and agreements.
As usual this fellow is asking questions but really does not want any answers! He is part of the network of problems.
Why? Because people like him are the ones who have driven Caribbean people backwards with policies copied from white liberal advanced nations that is only about their own self aggrandizement, power and influence.
The real question should have been:
2013 - CARICOM irrelevant, essential or a danger to the development of our people?
The only concern of CARICOM is to advance the interests of the liberal class that is destroying our societies and making our lives a hell.
High salaries and perks and influence for CARICOM officials, useless politicians in all our islands and their academic cohorts at UWI who promote their failed philosophy.
After 40 years of their non self sustaining progressive theology we catching our ass with taxes, borrowing and a breakdown of the moral fabric of our countries!
So CARICOM is not good , not irrelevant but a clear and present danger and existentialist threat to our people !
And anyone with an ounce of common sense knows it will not change in the next 40 years until the fools run out of money to fund their incompetence or riots break out in our societies!
People like Saunders are only about taking orders from the facist homosexual lobby out of the United Nations intent on undermining whatever little grasp we have of the Christian ethic and tradition that made the Western World great.
They want to sexualize our children, abort them and destroy marriage.
Then with their control of the media that make it seem as 'normal' when we end up with dysfunctional single parent families with the feminization of poverty.
Every year under the control of the new liberal leaders in the Western world and our countries we are going from crisis to crisis and they have us like fools discussing 'fiscal cliffs' after which they implement legislation to increase their debt by trillions.
How long can these liberal, progressive, socialist leaders keep 'jucking us in the eye' and expect that we will just go along with this new failed liberal paradigm!
The European Union is falling apart and what is the solution advocated by the bureaucrats in Brussels?
Answer: Deeper integration! In other words the same fools with the same socialist/facist one party policies who 'mashing up the place' insist that the must just do much, much more of the
same.
That is the mantra you hear all over Europe by the liberals. We did out thing, everything mash up so we must just do more to succeed.
Same with CARICOM.
For 40 years they and the academics at UWI and the politicians have mashed up the place and what is their solution ?
Answer: More of the same!! More and deeper integration with the same policies and same liberal elites who are destroying our countries.
so Saunders starts off with the same failed mantra. Yes he says - CARICOM ain't working - and it never has. So in lockstep with his counterparts all over the Caribbean - what does he say.
Answer: Deeper and Deeper Integration !
With the same clowns and same failed bankrupting policies that are good for no one but the liberals running the show in the Caribbean from CARICOM to UWI to the politicians.
All the media house take up the cry with article after article.
Deeper Integration that is the way forward!
So you drink poison and the person who poisoned you has the answer.
Just drink more of the poisoned Kool Aid and while you doing it pay me with more perks and power !
Thanks but no Thanks !
I am tired of paying taxes and seeing one party afer another go through the motions of repeating the same old crap, year after year about the benefits of this god damn CARICOM, and hell I ain't seeing no god damn benefit to me. So why the hell am I or are we Saint Lucians paying into this god damn friggin nonsense?
Why are our governments behaving like a%^$# wholes, making people pay and not getting any god damn benefits?
We doh want no frigging drug traffickers from their stinking Jamaican ghettos coming and wandering to and fro in St. Lucia under any damn Caricom arrangement either.
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