If we must pull out of Caricom... - Editorial - JamaicaObserver.com

If we must pull out of Caricom... - Editorial - JamaicaObserver.com: "WE get the sense that suggestions that Jamaica should leave the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and go it alone continue to resonate with Jamaicans who believe that the regional economic integration process has nothing to offer us, as the territory with the largest economy and the largest population. Indeed, Jamaica, along with Trinidad, pays more than half of the Caricom budget.
This isolationist mentality persists in the thinking of the majority of Jamaicans but has been offset by politicians, businessmen and intellectuals purveying the benefits of the imagined community of the West Indies. They have extolled the virtues of Caricom as a matrix of institutional arrangements for regional cooperation, for example. The University of the West Indies, and as a vehicle for collective action to influence international affairs, for example, joint policy positions in international fora."

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