Why can our leaders not lead by pointing our people to the need to sacrifice our insularity for the good of a single economic,political,geographic space for all Caribbean people. Barbados by its new attitude to illegal Guyanese should be singled out in the same breadth as introducing another more damaging parallel of ALBA. What is wrong with CARICOM aiming to establish the world’s largest (DFZ) Duty Free Zone in Guyana for instance where there is space and natural resources but we need the infrastructure(policy,finance,management etc) and political will? Such a zone should attract nationals from all member states to live and work without prejudice and fear of being profiled. That zone should be seen as serving all states of the Caribbean. Our leaders need to tap the Global marketplaces (including the Caribbean)for investment capital for a project that can signal the readiness to lay the first building block of a single State of the Caribbean.No longer should we seen as small disoriented people looking for handouts from the most willing donor who will give us a few pennies to undermine and stall our collective agreements at the expense of our future independence and the development of our collective islands into a single viable state.