Jamaica Gleaner In Focus published: Sunday | July 6, 2003
Wanted: A strong black bourgeoisie!
THE PRESENCE of President Thabo Mbeki at the 24th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Montego Bay presents a golden opportunity for there to be a rethinking and renewal of CARICOM. Call it 'learning from Mbeki'.
IT IS clear that CARICOM leaders who met over the last few days to discuss the affairs of the region are deeply conscious of the pivotal role that external factors and the global economy play, especially in small.
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has inspired a new idea using the World Cup of Cricket (2007) to give CARICOM an urgent and extra push towards a Single Market and Economy (SME). Cricket, that leading West Indian institution...