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Happy Holidays/Christmas and Best Wishes for 2003

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One Caribbean Nation. The Mahogany Coconut Group, thanks all  readers of our blog . We extend sincere best wishes to you and your families for the Holiday/Christmas Season and wish you all the very best for 2023. We are happy to note the following for their contribution to the region during 2022. Prime Minister of Barbados, Ms. Mia Amor Mottley and her administration's efforts in reigniting socio-economic ties with Mother Africa. Ms. Hyacinth Douglas for her contribution to her country Jamaica and the region. Ms. Douglas is a rapidly emerging voice on progressive community based socio-economic models.      The countries of Cuba and Ghana , whose citizens served the region with distinction as we battled COVID ALL Caribbean workers , who displayed great patriotic resilience as they confronted the economic harshness of COVID and in many cases fought against dastardly attempts to annihilate their unions and the gains made in the last sixty years throughout the region. ...

COVID -19 Exposes Region : Future Survival Depends on Unity

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One Caribbean Nation. The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated, the need for regional governments, to act as one force, when there are such crises. The scramble for desperately needed vaccines, has exposed the vulnerabilities of our island states. We need each other now “more than ever”. The region's largely based tourism economies, have been savaged and we suggest that full recovery, will in some cases , take a decade. Some leaders are pretending that they were unaware that the fragile nature of their economies, and often strained relations with others, would have exposed how naked we all are, when confronted by unexpected and economically devastating shocks. While we support all regional governments in their gallant battles against the deadly virus; we are nevertheless certain that a progressive, functioning, one Caribbean nation, would have better battled the challenges. We note, with great admiration how the nation of Cuba, is confronting the pandemic with its own...