The Long View

In a powerful speech at last month’s COP26 climate summit, Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, seized the day.

In mid-November, a little noticed virtual meeting took place. It considered in the round the security threats that the Caribbean will face in future.

Some years ago, the then Prime Minister of Barbados, the late Owen Arthur, told me that unless regional leaders could agree on how to achieve economic parity between CARICOM’s member states, a viable Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) might not be attainable.

A few days ago, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, delivered a speech marking the anniversary of the birth of Simon Bolivar.

Today a younger generation of Caribbean women and men have begun to challenge many of the assumptions that exist in and beyond the region.