What constitutes the Caribbean? The answer is often a matter o perspective and of context. Anglophones in the region usually speak and think of the Caribbean as meaning the English-speaking islands, or member state of the Caribbean community (Caricom). Sometimes the phrase “the wider Caribbean” is employed to refer to what is, in effect, “the others”. In the Hispanic literature El Caribe
refers either to the Spanish-speaking islands only, or to Las Antillas - the entire islands chain. More recently a distinction is being made between El Caribe insular -the islands- and El Gran Caribe - the Greater Caribbean, or entire basin. among scholar, “the Caribbean” is a sociohistorical category, commonly referring to a cultural zone characterized by the adjoining mainland- and may be extended to include the Caribbean Diaspora overseas. As one scholar observes, there are many Caribbeans.

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I must start by thanking the John Clifford Sealy Foundation for the honour of inviting me to deliver this lecture and for the opportunity to ruminate on the subject of my own choosing. I never had the fortune of knowing cliff Sealy personally, although the fame of the Clifford Sealy Book-Shop on Martli Street and then Frederick Street spread throughout the West Indies. After reading the powerful tribute to Sealy by Winston Riley, I feel as if I know him. He was clearly a remarkable man - a man whose sustaining sense of his own self-worth and enduring quest for self-knowledge plunged him into the world of law, politics, art, literature, theology and philosophy; a popular educator; social a political activist in the cause of the working class, national independence, and West Indies Federation; novelist, playwright; a man of letters and of books; above all, a human person that gained the respect and affection of those who knew him.

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Comencemos suponiendo que el objetivo máximo de todo esquema de integración hemisférica sea la promoción del desarrollo humano equitativo y sostenible. Una consecuencia que de esto se deriva es que la forma de integración hemisférica debe tomar en cuenta, en toda su magnitud, las amplias diferencias existentes entre los países en cuanto a dimensiones, dotación de fuentes de recursos y niveles de desarrollo…[...]

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