Caribbean Community
Whenever people mention regional integration they speak of cricket and UWI. As far as cricket goes it just doesn’t mean the same for those born after 1980, not to mention that the not so stellar performance of the team doesn’t give you much to rally around. UWI is celebrating 60 years as each campus becomes more and more insular and standards fall hard and fast.
In the end it’s ordinary people who knit this region together, at the same time connecting it to other regions of the world- people who move for work or love or just because, whose family trees branch out across the islands, Central and South America); not institutions, not the politicians, who if it were up to them would all be quite happy being big fat, parasitic fish in small ponds.
Community remains so hard because we’re still clinging to notions of nation, race and class that really have never served the majority of us and never will.
The Jamaica Observer has an editorial that is more than worth the read and the Barbados Underground and its readers have also been having their say.
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