May 17
‘Time to Take in the Begging Bowl’
Prepared for an OAS/ World Bank Forum for Parliamentarians on ‘Shaping A Trade Agenda To Promote Regional Integration And Competitiveness For CARICOM, St. Lucia, May 17, 2007. Correspondence to hrbrewster@aol.com.Copyright Havelock Brewster 2007
I want to take the issue of development challenges onto a different dimension- one that could be of interest to politicians… Some of my thoughts center on our weak sense of purpose, deteriorating community values, and a paralytic deficit in democracy, reflected, in particular, in the dysfunctional politics of race and small size…[..]
