CARIBBEAN: Regional Unity Losing Steam, Critics Say
                   
ipsnews.net     Jun 30, 2008            

By Peter Ischyrion ST JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 30 (IPS) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders are gearing up for their annual summit in Antigua early next month amid worrying signs that after 35 years, the regional integration movement has not progressed beyond a "community of sovereign states". As Ralph Gonsalves, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines prime minister and one of the older leaders among a crop of new Caribbean prime ministers noted recently, Caricom will soon be forced to transform itself from "a ramshackle political-administrative apparatus" that allows "several of its member states (to) jealously guard a vaunted and pristine sovereignty". Gonsalves has blamed the "politics of a limited regional engagement in Jamaica, shackled by the ghosts from the federal referendum; the politics of ethnicity in Trinidad and... [read full story]                    


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