Dear Editor,
Is Caricom relevant to Guyana? Has it ever been? Personally, I’d like to see a balance sheet on Caricom from the Guyana perspective. How much money and resources Guyana has spent over the years on funding Caricom, including housing the Secretariat and the Secretary General. Then on the other side of the balance sheet, the gains. Trade garnered, skills transfer, issues resolved as part of the grouping, etc. We’d find that we have been carrying a major deficit every year.
Where was Caricom when Guyana, a member society deteriorated over the years of PNC rule?
Are we really a member country when Guyanese are continuously being ill-treated by Barbados? Where’s Caricom?
Guyana needs to pull out of this grouping. Place more emphasis in the South American Community of Nations. More benefits and opportunities exist there.
Yours faithfully,
G Persaud
