Saturday, August 28, 2010

It’s law caricom needs: Not a committee

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Anonymous said...

There is no common culture in Caricom. There may be a common language. It is called Jamaican patois. It drives the music of the drug culture that has taken over the underground economy throughout these countries.

The most flexible and uncomplicatedly mobile factor of production, capital, has done its deed. CLICO has threatened the savings and prosperity of quite a few people around the region. The mergers and acquisitions other than finance and insurance have consolidated and concentrated ownership in the hands of a few companies without any palpable benefits to consumers. What a waste of effort and what shortsightedness!

What is in this article, and what it therefore amounts to is little more than just another person singing for his supper.

That the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand have spoken English in common is not enough to make them a viable economic unit. Look around and see. There may be economic cooperation between countries but only if there are benefits to be had like in NAFTA.

Yeaap! NAFTA too has stalled. The FTAA has been placed on the backburner for some time now.

Therefore, it follows, that unless and until there is a political union, all those meetings and the list of unenforceable agreements are not worth even the paper they are written on. The gatherings too, are just occasions for the heads of state to clink campaign glasses together and plan other meetings that plan other meetings. What a colossal waste of time! These people had better spend the time eliminating their drug controlled garrison constituencies instead.

Demas wanted our best brains to remain only in the Caribbean. Therefore, he advised that we do not send our young people overseas to be educated.

In the meantime, UWI is producing graduates who can only repeat and regurgitate what their lecturers have taught them, just like sheep. Students are not taught to be innovative or to challenge the status quo or what is taught, for fear of getting poor grades. They are not exposed to how international business is conducted around the world. They don't have a base on which to cobble a relevant system for the Caribbean community.

No new and innovative ideas can ever come from such a group. Way to go CARICOM!

The harsh reality is that meanwhile, we are stuck with countless repetitions of pointless ideas and analyses like the load of idle talk above. What is worse. These are coming from people who scarcely know anything about business or how a regional trade body should operate to be competitive in a world of globalisation.

For good measure the Secretariat is situated in one of the most backward countries in the world. It is populated too, by backroom political agreement by heads of governments, rather than by people with any deep knowledge of how Caricom should go forward into the future.

August 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM

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