Note from the Diaspora : COVID, A Merciless Change Agent
One Caribbean Nation. By William Skinner Note from the Diaspora COVID, A Merciless Change agent The habit of putting off things until tomorrow, has been severely affected by COVID. Alert social commentators have suggested that a number of Caribbean maladies and viruses such as the procrastination virus, which once was an incurable Caribbean malady, is in some form of remission. While we certainly do not wish any virus to infect, our policy planners, we are nevertheless, hoping that the implementation deficit virus, that we have learned to live with, will also fall victim to COVID. We have finally accepted, that regional economies are fragile and in need of radical, some say, revolutionary reform. We need to start, immediately, if we want to leave progressive, socio economic models of development, for our children and grandchildren. We must ensure that they enjoy more than the barest minimum, of a good socio-economic landscape. COVID is acting as a needed change agent, to cure...