During Carifesta in Suriname, I took the opportunity to ask many of the participants a simple yet deep question – Do you think of yourself as a Caricom citizen, why/why not?
This is a question I think the Caricom Secretariat should really ask around the member states. Of everyone I asked, around 30 people, only one person – a Surinamese 19-year-old male said he did not consider himself to be a Caricom citizen. Why not? He said it was not easy to travel from state to state. That was it. Although the majority said yes, travel between member states was a universal factor brought up by almost everyone.
But yes, people feel like Caricom citizens because we basically have the
