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Barbados, Antigua: Peter Pays for Paul?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 @ 13:33 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Economics, Law, Media, Travel, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Barbados Free Press is not convinced that the CARICOM arrangement is beneficial, referring to an article about the recent double-murder in Antigua to make their point: “The ‘Caribbean Brand' for tourism…was a disastrous policy created…as part of the effort to prop up the pretense and phony benefits of CARICOM. According to the article, we’re all the same in Caribbean - violent, bloodthirsty savages - and that includes Barbados.”

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