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Who Lost the Caribbean? /

28 Oct 2016

INTRODUCTION or purposes of clarity, the focus here will be on the 14 former colonies of the United F Kingdom, plus Suriname (while Haiti became a member of CARICOM in 2002 it is not, in practical terms, an integrated part of the organization for reasons of history, language and culture). [...] Canada became active in the Caribbean when the British colonies - with the enthusiastic support of the ‘mother country’ - began acquiring independence in the sixties and seventies. [...] As this progressed, Canada, the UK, and the US made generous commitments to help the new nations develop their economies, in the expectation that they would eventually acquire a degree of self- sufficiency. [...] In the case of bananas, the end of preferential EU tariffs in 2012 as a result of the ‘banana wars’ with Latin America effectively ended the industry in the Caribbean. [...] The one organization that achieved some efficiencies of scale was the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), which allowed the micro-states of the Eastern Caribbean to share and rationalize certain services such as diplomatic representation.
aid government politics economics economy caribbean canada culture development assistance international relations development aid organisation of eastern caribbean states caribbean community human activities treaty
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Ottawa, ON, CA

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