Obviously the various countries have a common history and origin as British colonies with many current opportunities to foster a common and prosperous economic future. There is no competition in common goals and common endeavors.



"Jamaica has been the ATM for Trinidad and Tobago."  But, what does that really mean?  Obviously the two countries have a common history and origin as British colonies with many current opportunities to foster a common and prosperous economic future.  There is no competition in common goals and common endeavors and nor should there be any feelings of competition. In fact, we are only helping a population of "others" hinder and devalue our region's potential if we do not work together for common goals.  There are individuals of South East Asian decent in both Islands.  They appear Indian but are certainly hybrid individuals racially who could have been fully black ancestrally two generations ago. This is what happens with Bacchanal.  Everyone is hybrid. It produces love and children and the children of love or of bacchanal; not hatred. but, you kill a relative, family member or in-law and expect to prosper?  It doesn't work that way.  You don't kill a relative for his Indian dna or White dna; nor do you kill them for their humility in education to actually study and complete their real education and nor do you use them, hoping to kill them so that you would impersonate them as if it would be an achievement. That is a dyslexic bastard devil court jester.  If we see anyone like this who promotes community division or resent for education, we find them and kill them as they kill our people.  They do not raise their own children since they castrate themselves and always castrate the boys in their homes since they could be someone else's son and maybe someone who chose to do more education. They would rather die than have that boy explain anything to them.  He is living death. Anything that does not reproduce is dead.  They usually choose to be welders and resent anyone who believes he could do something else such as chiropractic care or study something to help the welders in the community complete their business documents and address their other personal matters.  But, we don't have any Prime Ministers like this in the West Indies since they only take us backward and make us a dependent region.  Dependency is not association while you fear foreign education is a threat to independence.  Association is understanding and participation with interdependence and cooperation.  All education, including foreign education is good.  If we ever did, they are dead  by now or certainly will be.  To some of these people, it is as if education of any kind is a threat to regional independence while we find disease in our foods and tooth pastes more than ever before as if disease is a culture and identity instead of the wisdom to be physically clean.  Our culture is to be clean.      
Education is good in an intelligent region.  We do need real graduates who did not seek anything other than social position and association by cutting an appendage to claim to be a school's alumni.  Those people are enemies of the state in some form.  It fosters dignity and regional cultural understanding.  Can you imagine an entire region that does not know how to change a light bulb by reading a car manual and is dependent on the car dealer? Can you imagine a region that does not know how to transfer property to another generation  by putting them on the home or on the joint bank account before the demise to ensure the transfer and that the property stays in the family where no one can say they have no evidence of continued family ownership?  The people who choose to assist others with business documents are not only Indianish but also Blackish; that is West Indian.   Some West Indians are purely Indian genetically but who do not speak anything but English and they have black family members. But, they kill black people in the economy as a sign of some allegiance to a false identity as if it is a problem for Blackish  West Indians to own anything.  But you are not really Indian if you do not know what part of India you are from. You will not be more Indian if you kill a more Blackish West Indian. When are you going to India to confirm your identity?  You are now only West Indian. That is good!   In either case, genes and ancestry in 2016 is no justification for national, regional and family disintegration due to racial competition for hegemony.  It only takes us backward; not forward.        
That's the claim from the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), which has indicated that it wants Jamaica to use the upcoming Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Summit to push forcefully for changes that will "rebalance trading relationships" in the 15-member group.
William Mahfood, the PSOJ president who has made the claim, was referencing a comment made by former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who in 2010 at a similar event in Jamaica, controversially declared that her country was not an "ATM machine for the Caribbean".
"Jamaica, without us even realising it, for many, many years has been the ATM for Trinidad. What exists now in CARICOM is a one-way street. We have an influx of goods coming from Trinidad. Trinidad, at this point in time is the only beneficiary of CARICOM," he argued.
Mahfood said CARICOM should be moving at a better pace towards integration similar to the European Union (EU), now in crisis over the decision of Britain to exit the union.
The EU citizens and businesses can travel freely throughout member states with little restrictions.

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"If CARICOM were to operate in the same way, what that would mean is that where there are competitive advantages, like in Trinidad, for oil, gas and energy, manufacturers could have a base there, but it could be staffed by Jamaican or Guyanese labourers," Mahfood argued.
"If that doesn't happen, then there is a lot of the CSME intention [that is] really not worthwhile," he said.
The issue of trade, especially by Jamaican businesses, has put a strain over the years on relationships between Kingston and Port-of-Spain. There has also been the long-running matter relating to immigration.
Jamaican businesses have also complained about the alleged disadvantage they face with Trinidad and Tobago under the Common External Tariff (CET), which is an agreed tax by members of the union on imports of a product from outside the union.
"Under the Common External Tariff, it allowed Trinidad, which produces petroleum products, to export their petroleum to Jamaica at a premium. We estimated that it cost Jamaica over the last 10 years more than $8 billion," Mahfood said, explaining that there has been a push for the CET's removal or the inclusion of tax on petroleum from Trinidad.
Mahfood claims that a change would ensure that all products are priced to compete at the same level.
No Jamaican businesses have brought a case to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) testing the issues under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which governs CARICOM and the CSME.
Meanwhile, head of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association, Metry Seaga, believes that Jamaican businesses should shoulder some of the blame for some of the trade imbalances that persist in the region.
"We have not done a good enough job in utilising the available options to us. Countries like Trinidad and Tobago have used them very well. We have played by the letter of the law," he said, adding that he believes in the CSME and CARICOM.
"We have not pushed the envelope. For example, we have allowed Trinidad and Tobago to sell us oil at an inflated price because of the benefit of the CET. We have known about [it] and we have been silent about [it] for the last 10 years."
According to Seaga, Jamaican businesses have options of pursuing strong negotiations, registering a complaint with the Council for Trade and Economic Development or taking cases to the CCJ.
Data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica show that Jamaica's trade deficit with the CARICOM declined by almost a fifth in the first 10 months of last year.
Up to October last year, the deficit was US$480 million.
STATIN says the deficit fell because of lower prices of fuel imported from Trinidad and Tobago.
Meanwhile, exports to the countries of the regional group also fell by 40 per cent to US$45 million.

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