Regional integration and the Caribbean Single Market and Economy are alive and kicking.
And Prime Minister Freundel Stuart believes those two most important components of CARICOM hold the key to the entire region coming out the current recession, which has even the world’s largest economies in an apparent death grip.
Stuart on Wednesday night made a call for the islands of the Caribbean to forget trying to battle the recession as individual countries, and band together better than ever before so as to become a power of world renowned prowess.
The Prime Minister’s new regional integration call came as he delivered the sixth Distinguished Alumni Lecture at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus’ Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination in the Walcott Warner Theatre.
“I am a Caribbean man whose very fibre has been shaped by our Caribbean civilization and by all the various institutions which have moulded our being,” Stuart told the standing room only audience. “The topic chosen by the alumni for tonight’s discussion is both fitting and timely.”
