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Ronald
I've heard of the Telephone, but an “Anglophone black people” lol, where do they make these devices? Maybe I'm just an Anglophobe.
I thought the break-up of the West Indian Federation by Jamaica was the first failure at Caribbean unification, but you mention the 1930's, and I am not aware of that circumstance. I have, and continue to interact with Jamaicans internationally, and too often encounter that air of superiority expressed in regards to people from other Caribbean islands; especially towards the Haitian people, often times finding it necessary to extract my presence from the company of some Jamaicans.
The pejorative term, “Small-Island”, is common vocabulary of Trinidadians and Jamaicans to convey an “insignificant country”. Caribbean Unity?? good luck.
the term used by Trinnys and Jamaicans to denigrate the people of islands with smaller areas, is SMALL ISLANDER
.... pea brains in a coconut size and hardened cranium----
The grandiose islands scowling at their Smaller islands as if humiliated by their geographic amalgamation- if not umbilical cord.
IF the Caribbean islands had embarked on their 1930's quest in step wise deliberation- the Basin would have acieved a mature common vision -this would have given the region strategic geo-political economic clout.
The kind of clout held in husbandry by our mighty northern neighbors- on our behalf.
Imagine the maritime rights rights of the entire basin as one collective pool.
A robust fisheries based on rigorous protection and sustainability -profiting the Collective Caribbean entity. We should be influencing prices on the Tokyo Nikkei rather than bowing to crummy handouts that satiate a local fish industry in exchange for free grazing rights etc.
The economic boon and synergy is to control the raw product as far as conversions by manufacturing processes allow - thus controlling market share on the global commodities exchange.
Our bombastic Yardee brethren would not merely extract their bauxite- they would be able to convert it to the fantastic alloy components used in car and airplane engines. The manufacturing jobs potential would be spread around the Caribbean entity with JA spearheading innovative market responses -much like the continuum of evolution within Apple Macintosh product lines.. BY the by the lastest slimmest lightest mac book is carved out a wedge of refinedAlluminum- The only part with NO ROYALTIES Jamaica gets is its pennies on the ton for its dirt mixed bauxite.
Not even a TRICKLE DOWN Reagan style economic factor is possible in Jamaica's God given natural resource.
Our real lamentation is not that Carticom has not reached near its tru potential-
Our tue wailing will come when those with real power effectively divide and conquer these disjointed isles-maintaing them in perpetual economic LIMBO
Thank you Mr. Saunders for taking on that moron on the behalf of most of us from the "small islands". I remember reading this article and asked what kind of cocaine laced marijuana this guy is smoking. The same condescending BS and foolish "WE BIGGA AN' BETTA DAN AL AH DEM" mentality that mash up the federation is being displayed here by someone who we think should have known better. They keep propagating this "small island bigotry" to keep dividing the people of the Caribbean when their past leaders laid the foundation for what we have so far achieved as a unt. To say that we could have achieved more if the current leaders were at least half committed to the principles of full integration is a gross understatement. Each one of these current "mimi tsars" of their little rocks are to be blamed for our underdevelopment and stymied advancement as a people. They are selfish, stupid, and corrupt simple. I hold no bones about that.
Mate has up to his neck buried and packed up in the sand. When he dies, they will also write the epitaph for CARICOM. We should forgive him. Dimmed eyes comes with age. Rose-coloured glasses were worn whilst writing the above.
Mate has up to his neck buried and packed up in the sand. When he dies, they will also write the epitaph for CARICOM. We should forgive him. Dimmed eyes comes with age. Rose-coloured glasses were worn whilst writing the above.
CARICOM: phony idealism.
United we stand
Divided we fall
Falling is the song playing
on the Caribbean Stage
-The political differences flowing from the imposed colonial backdrops provide nothing beyond cultural fissures -grotesque social class ideology- economic lopsidedness more acute than their imperial lineage.
The only recourse to unification above the inbred colonial fractures is to view the Caribbean as a geopolitical unit-that which nature has made unique as a region is the authentic citizenship that we all share and truly comprehend -profoundly.
How many times those in in the diaspora are asked why did you leave paradise to settle here in the slate gray cold of .....?
There is nothing phony about embracing a region as a collective homeland.
The spirit of the 13 US colonies did not stifle at its Appalachian backbone.
The Caribbean is a natural maritime geopolitical powerhouse...
Some of us see the rocks in the way of the sea..
others the sea in the way of the rocks..
but the truly progressive envision the rocks, the sea and the mainland countries that are graced by this splendid sea
as geopolitical power that can instill the power of sustainability-economic equity and the spirit of paradise into her
Yes our primitive colonial differences may assure our terminal reduction to perpetual despair but it is our laissez-faire that assures this permanent division.
Perhaps when a new crop of children sharing regional and global education-
beyond the walls-
out of the box-
across the hurdles of "Roseta Stone " languages- biased accentuations etc.
and economic GREED;
introspect on the natural splendor bequeathed to their stewardship
- then this tropical Eden will sparkle in its rebirth- sela
I can see clearly now the rain (cultural/political division) is gone.
I can see all obstacles (economic disenfranchisement) in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds (colonial/imperial servitude) that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshinin' day.
It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshinin' day.
Oh yes, I can make it now the pain is gone.
All of the bad feelings (crabs in the bucket mentality) have disappeared.
Here is the rainbow (regional unification)I've been praying for.
It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshinin' day.
(economic sustainability)
Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies.
Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies.
(Economic equity and regional redistribution)
by Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly
The writer from Jamaica is a realist. We do not have the benefits of contiguous states, nor the blessings of having different climates and variously different natural resources in each island. The common denominator according to Chalkie the calypsonian is sun, sea-water and sand. Now trade that among the islands if we could, and see how much GDP growth can be generated among the isolated islands. That is what CSME stands for. There is no evidence of economies of scale under the various asset purchases by Trinidad oil, nor use of ERP management systems by the various acquisitions of the best performance business units say in
Barbados. In fact, we have had a disaster in the making with those M&A activities. Arm-chair cheer-leaders come aplenty in the region. But lives and businesses are getting destroyed those who are simply bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
CLICO's staggering failure, and its regional destruction of capital, plus the collapse of the Regional Multilateral Clearing Facility again based in TNT, give more than ample testimony of the limits and limitations of the CSME.
@9.10AM -I appreciate your realism-
The great sea and its tributary Ocean ocean is a source of lean omega rich protein and a buffet of minerals and vitamins essential for human life
Secondly, it is a potential green energy source: wave energy-wind energy-
Thirdly , new innovative and sustainable fisheries initiatives for local and export markets.
Of course the tourism aspect is fully exploited -perhaps in a new enlightened regional green sustainability outlook -we may require a return to hybrid tall ships as Caribbean cruise ships
The seas and oceans were our life blood (our very bodies emulate their approx 70% occupation of Earth -ditto the flid composition of our bodies. Salinity is present in ur blood.
Our evolutionary discouse asserts that life began in the oceans- as babies we gestates amidst the umbilical milieu like tadpoles in a maternal lake.
YET EXPLOITATIVE (as in greed driven 0 homo sapiens HAVE NO frigging respect for our seas and oceans
Today we are warned not to eat meaty seafood 3x week-(e.g, salmon , tuna--they spend a long time traversing the damned oceans-as in dumping pools for every exoctic -as in deadly- waste)
No wonder , you my learned blogger did not include it as a capital or natural resource.
My idealism is hinged on the hope that before the wafvettes dominate - generations of children will excel thir learning curve to lead a green revolution that might just save the doomed planet -as fit for human habitation.
The race to win the alternative - a viable colonization of Mars is still a Star Trek Fantasy.
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