Madam Speaker. I rise today to enter into the RECORD a July 15. 2008 New York Carib News OpEd entitled: "CARICOM Summit on Economic Integration." One issue that was made very clear as a result of the CARICOM Conference in New York is that there is a call for economic and political unity among the CARICOM states. With dozens of small economies that are similar in makeup and have many of the same goals. it is clear that the need for the Caribbean to form a Single Market Economy would eliminate many barriers to growth in the region. The OpEd speaks to the benefits that this Single Market Economy would have for the growth of the Caribbean and that "the sooner the roadblocks are removed the better it would be for the region as a whole." The Caribbean can possibly experience the growth that Europe continues to experience since their unification. But unity will not be easy as we are dealing with issues of sovereignty and especially fear of an influx of unemployed migrants and the free movement of criminal networks.
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