July 30, 2021
A focus on the Caribbean is being seen now out of the US government. Not since the Bill Clinton years has any significant mention or thought into these chain of islands been any more significant. I attribute this all to US vice president Kamala Harris and just by her presence alone she is able to bring people to her that understands her Jamaican heritage and get people to think about the talent on these tiny little islands.
What we need now is follow through and not let US investment opportunities and a hand out turn into the confusing European Union Economic Partnership Agreement that lumped is in with Africa and the Pacific states. WE are not them, not at all.
Also, we cannot let it slide into stagnancy like the Caribbean Basin Initiative and have no true and impactful synergies that cause it to continue to grow and morph into other things.
There is so much to be done on these islands, from the mess and poverty in Haiti, to the growing oil find in Guyana and the tensions they face from Venezuela to even Venezuela itself turning into a hotbed of criminality and being on the verge of a truly failed state despite all of its oil deposits.
Jamaica, The Bahamas, Barbados and the rest of them need a “revival.” Revive us again, show some interest America. We are right on your border. You come to vacation all the time, well spend some of that loose-money like you can and stop trying to force on us your values and acting all self-righteous like you just didn’t have four years of Donald Trump as your president.
This is why China has become a friend to these islands and any country in the Caribbean that has not dealt with China to some degree in the last 20 years while America left you high and dry after the Cold War ended is a fool. China showed you they loved you with money. That’s the kind of love we need now. They built hospitals, airports, roads, hotels and a whole lot more. The US needs to do that again.
Ok, we admit, some of the leaders here are corrupt to the core of their soul. We understand that, but it’s not like you can’t and have not been able to control them in the past before. So what’s the problem now? No problem, just American apathy and cheapness. Well, you can’t complain about the Chinese now, and not even the Russians.
Get to spending that Yankee dollar and you yourself stop whoring after Chinese cheap labour and then complaining when the Chinese takes your money and spends it right back in the same countries you are too high and mighty and important to deal with yourself.