Weekend Comment

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One Caribbean Nation.




As the region slowly slips into the post-COVID era, it is imperative that we closely examine, our current state and exactly where we are heading. We are now dependent on the Iron Birds and Floating Hotels, to save our economies from total collapse.

Our beautiful islands, bountifully touched by nature, find themselves poorly managed and their physical environment in serious decline, hand in hand, with the rising crime and two generations, who believe they have been short circuited by both governments and private sectors. And there are no progressive policies, to secure their future. The private sectors remain deeply committed to paying low wages and the systematic economic destruction of the working class and trade union movement.

While our leaders strut about the globe, pretending that they are being taken seriously, spouting repetitive hogwash; their countries continue to grapple with perpetual poverty.

Our island states are barren of any truly progressive leadership, and the University of the West Indies seems incapable of producing creative and progressive citizens on its production line.

This is not the time for pretty talk!!


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