Economic Integration With Unequal Partners - The Caribbean And North America December, 1993opt.pdf

Situated at the pivot of North and South America, the Caribbean is inevitably swept up in the wave of economic - and perhaps political - change that has seized the Americas. Time for Action (West Indian Commission, 1992), the report of the West Indian Commission set up by the Heads of Government of Caricom1, began the process of conditioning the Caribbean to a new economic and political reality.- The region, and its leaders, are still
working out the implications of the direction in which the report points. Neither leaders nor populace are confident that the Caribbean may achieve meaningful self-determination in a world dominated by sophisticated industrial nations. The fear of economic, cultural and social oblivion lies deep in niany hearts.