{"id":144071,"date":"2021-12-26T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=144071"},"modified":"2021-12-26T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:45:30","slug":"deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper integration of CARICOM countries cannot wait"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/u>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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The destruction by tornadoes of Kentucky, a south-eastern State of the United States of America (US), on December 12, has lessons for the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as 2022 dawns amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and weakened economies.<\/p>

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One of the lessons is that those member states of CARICOM that continue to insist on CARICOM remaining \u201ca community of sovereign states\u201d, each pursuing separate policies \u2013 sometimes to the detriment of each other \u2013 are marching down the road to perdition, as the facts of their situation substantiate.<\/p>

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Many of the sovereign states of CARICOM would not be solvent if it weren\u2019t for the official development assistance they receive. \u00a0Their sovereignty is constrained by the extent of their financial and economic dependence for which they pay a price. \u00a0Curiously, some of them prefer to pay a price to external powers, than to pool their individual sovereignty into a common autonomous authority with their CARICOM partners in order to build greater strength and resilience.<\/p>\n

Why should people in other US States, such as Texas or New York, care about the devastation of Kentucky? \u00a0After all, Kentucky\u2019s representatives in the US Senate, Mitch McConnel and Rand Paul, fiercely resist the US federal government. \u00a0They want to maintain power in Kentucky\u2019s governor and legislature, just like some governments of CARICOM countries insist on their \u201csovereignty\u201d.<\/p>

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Kentucky is a state within the Union of 50 states that comprise the US. \u00a0 If the US federal government does not use national resources to aid Kentucky to rebuild, the State will fall into unemployment, poverty and crime. \u00a0It would eventually become a failed state. People would flee to find livelihoods elsewhere and investors would shift their money to functioning economies. \u00a0The Federal Government could not allow Kentucky to fail, not even with the likes of Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul favouring state power over federal authority. \u00a0If Kentucky were left to fend for itself, it would become a weak link in the US chain, making the country vulnerable and exposing it to security threats.<\/p>\n

The Federal Government rallied to provide immediate relief to Kentucky, and to committing huge sums of money to its rebuilding and recovery, because the United States is one nation. \u00a0It is not a group of sovereign states. \u00a0 If the US were just a community of independent states, as are the members of CARICOM, it would not be the world\u2019s greatest economic and military power. \u00a0 Instead, 50 states would exist \u2013 some stronger and better resourced than others, but each of them much weaker individually than they are as a single nation, and certainly none of them a force in the world.<\/p>

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In fashioning their independence, the original 13 countries (then British colonies) debated a union with a strong federal government or a collection of independent and disparate States. \u00a0They settled on a strong Federal government precisely because they recognised that only by joining their collective resources would they be sufficiently strong to resist England, France, Spain and other European powers that would have kept them dependent and in thrall.<\/p>

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From the beginnings of CARICOM, governments, haunted by the collapse of the West Indies Federation caused by ambitious and manipulative local politicians determined to be big fish in small bowls resisted the Union that would have reduced their vulnerabilities, enhanced their resilience, and made them economically stronger.<\/p>\n

What is striking about the years 2020 and 2021 is that the greatest success of the \u2018sovereign\u2019 states of the Caribbean Community came from joint institutions and collective action. \u00a0No country in CARICOM would have battled COVID-19 without the Caribbean Public Health Agency; none would have responded quickly enough to natural disasters without the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency; and none would have mobilized insurance relief without the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility or the emergency resources of the Caribbean Development Bank. \u00a0As it is, despite the help of regional agencies, almost all of them now have large debt burdens and recovery will be long and hard, except for Guyana with the addition of considerable oil and gas wealth to its traditional resources of agriculture and precious metals.<\/p>\n

Recently, Guyana\u2019s President Irfaan Ali, talking to the private sector in his country, declared that \u201cRegional integration and other \u2018fancy talk\u2019 cannot be taken seriously unless the current (trade) barriers are removed\u201d. \u00a0 He is right about that. \u00a0CARICOM claims to be a Common Market, yet the countries have erected trade barriers against themselves, while opening their markets to the European Union and the United Kingdom with little trade benefits in return. \u00a0After almost 50 years of existence, CARICOM is still not a Common Market and is far away from a Customs Union. \u00a0The much vaunted \u2018single market and economy\u2019 has become a fading aspiration.<\/p>\n

But, it is not only trade barriers that should be torn down. \u00a0CARICOM and its purposes need to be reconsidered, reworked and redirected. \u00a0No one should be satisfied with its current condition; all should be ready to revamp it.<\/p>\n

It is most likely the case that CARICOM governments are still not ready for the more perfect union that could help to insulate each CARICOM country from the severe challenges that lie ahead in 2022 and beyond. \u00a0However, if the last two decades have proven anything, it is that individual sovereignty is not the answer to the economic progress or resilience of the member states of CARICOM. \u00a0 Like Kentucky, they lack the financial and resource capacity for effective resilience.<\/p>\n

In this connection, the CARICOM Treaty needs revision now. \u00a0The mistakes of its last revision should not be repeated. Implementation machinery must be established to oversee the completion of a Common Market, including freedom of movement of all people just as there is freedom of movement of capital. \u00a0There should also be clear compensatory mechanisms for those states that dismantle protectionist policies. \u00a0Countries that cannot sign up to these necessary actions should not delay the integration of others; they should step aside and consider joining later.<\/p>\n

IF CARICOM is to be meaningful to the lives of its member countries, deeper integration cannot wait.<\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 The destruction by tornadoes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDeeper integration of CARICOM countries cannot wait - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deeper integration of CARICOM countries cannot wait\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 The destruction by tornadoes […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-26T15:45:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"740\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"493\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Deeper integration of CARICOM countries cannot wait\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-26T15:45:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-26T15:45:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\"},\"wordCount\":1062,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:740\/h:493\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Sir-Ronald-Sanders.jpeg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/deeper-integration-of-caricom-countries-cannot-wait\/\",\"name\":\"Deeper integration of CARICOM countries cannot wait - 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