The reality of free movement

(Barbados Advocate) ONE of the main objectives of CARICOM is the full utilisation of labour. However, as revealed by CARICOM Ambassador H.E.Robert Morris, the movement of labour has always been problematic in the Regional development and integration movement.

Presenting on the lecture, ‘CARICOM: Old Wine in New Skins,’ at the Queen’s College Auditorium, he explained that this concept has always been one that was met with a sense of fear for some Caribbean Heads.

“It was one of the things that caused a lot of fear in the Federation, which failed. Jamaica, Trinidad, all of them felt that they would become the home and the raft for the very poor of the Region; all of them did not think that the – what they would call the small islanders – would come to inhabit their regions.

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