Getting out of the crouch

Given the fractured and dislocated conditions of our history in this region, Caribbean people have had a hard climb up the ladder of self-worth. Overlords and circumstances have combined to minimize us a people, and while the situation is manifestly better now, many of us previously grew up in this region stained with insecurity and doubt.

Along the way, as it is for most countries grappling with that uncertain horizon, our artistic people, and to some degree our athletes, have served as the outstretched hand helping us to get out of that mental crouch we were in. The work of those individuals,