The Caribbean is about to experience a crisis of a kind that no one in the region or anywhere else in the world could have predicted.
COVID -19, the Corona Virus, which is now present across the Americas will for a while challenge the economic and social viability of nations small and large and their government’s ability to be proactive, science-led, competent, and trusted.
If the practical, public health, logistical and economic challenges now being faced in Europe or the US are examples of the difficulties governments in liberal societies are having when trying to address a fast moving epidemic of uncertain proportions, much of the Caribbean will also struggle.