Monday Comment , Are We Ready ?

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One Caribbean Nation.

Monday Comment, Are We Ready?


Fisheries

Agriculture
Culture


As we continue to grapple with the economic wreckage caused by COVID-19, we must ask ourselves: Are we really prepared to accept our economies have been suddenly thrown into almost utter chaos?

We can continue to drown ourselves in looking at data and comparisons while searching for bragging rights. However, the stark reality remains that we are all in the same barrel. Failure to recognize that the tourism industry cannot save us, will be our economic undoing. Misleading Caribbean citizens that the iron birds and floating hotels, will somehow give us and our economies special treatment, is a dangerous dose of disturbing false hope.

Against this background, the Mahogany Coconut Group, calls for an urgent meeting of CARICOM, to plan develop and implement new, radical, and progressive policies for: agriculture, fisheries, and the creative industries to form the center piece of the new and Post COVID -19 economies.

We further call for a broad import substitution program designed to dampen and, in some cases eliminate, our dependency on the importation of products and services we can produce.


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