We need a regional Private Sector Commission

Clinton Urling

By Clinton Urling

 

The regional private sector movement is near death, on minimum life support and no amount of bandages and doses of dubious medicine can resuscitate it. I have chosen the words carefully, avoiding the phrase “bring it back to life” because it is questionable whether it has ever had life-sustaining vigour in its entire existence.

That notwithstanding, the current effort by some private sector leaders around the region to revive an institution called the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) is a commendable one. However, I hold little faith in the effort gaining success. From the outset, there is a 4,000-kilogramme elephant