Understanding Development Challenges in the Caribbean (’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…[..]

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