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Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago
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Ideas, Economics, History, International Relations, Agriculture, Politics
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English

“My thesis is that Caribbean governments today are run exactly like the plantations of old, the only difference being that there are fewer white people cracking whips; the overseers have taken over the Great House”: Barbados-based Trinidadian blogger B.C. Pires builds on the late Lloyd Best's Theory of Plantation Economy.

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