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Cricket our sword and shield, West Indian the cricket ground is our battle field for freedom. Growing up as a child of the 80’s and 90’s when the word cricket is mentioned my first thought would have been how uninteresting can one sport be, can someone please change the subject to football or basketball. After watching the movie Fire on Babylon, it was evident that cricket was more than just some meaningless sport. Cricket was one of the main driving forces behind Caribbean people Gaining an identity it was our way of showing our former slave masters that were on the same standing as they were and the rest of the world.

Even after the Caribbean people were freed from slavery in the 19th century we were still oppressed in 20th century.  According to (King Franki) a journalist of the Daily Observer-Antigua, He said the revolutionary period throughout the Caribbean was during 60 70. This period highlighted the tempo the time in which black people was not regarded as equal. There was a great disparity between the have and have not; the have being the white and the have not being black. Cricket was viewed as the mouth piece for the Caribbean. This is evident in the fact that cricket was the only thing that unified the Caribbean people, whether you lived in the Caribbean or aboard. This avenue allowed west Indians the opportunity to carry a message to the white world to abort racism by making the cricket field a level playing field, and expressing our rebellion against the British colonizing power. This mission was no easy task it was a bloody battle where people were injured, nevertheless West Indies cricket team was successful and dominated the cricket arena for fifteen years.

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This single story of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is parallel story to one of how Caribbean people view their identity and culture.  the idolizing of the Western culture has created a single story about the way Caribbean people view their life, culture and education system. We have been brain wash from the inception of our birth by the constant bombardment of British culture on our schools and American culture on our TV's. This has led to little value being place on our way of life, culture and education system.
The danger now arises that some of our Caribbean people may want to think that their way of life, culture and education is inferior to that of other country such as America and England and thus aspiring to be like and or emulating them.

Most Caribbean island schools still teach such lie as Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbean and the civilized us. In fact, there is unsurmountable evidence showing that this is not the case. It is evident that our own people are enslaving our future generation mind by the perpetual practising and teaching of content only from other country thus making it hard for our people to have a Caribbean identity. This kind of practice will only destroy our Caribbean identity making our children grow up knowing only British ideologies and having a single story about their own Caribbean identity and culture.

At the All Saints secondary I remember some two years a back Sir. Vivian Richards visited our school and there was no excitement in the air.  Looking back, I was ashamed when Prince Edwards visited the school and the principal students and teachers showed in numbers. This is because they were thought that prince Edward was an important figure while they were thought nothing about our local legend Sir. Vivian Richard
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A single economic space in which you can move to seek employment, established a business, move capital, offer services, across 13 CARICOM countries (Hamilton Salas)

CARICOM dates to the 60’s when a group of Caribbean countries decided to form a federation which was basically a political endeavour by countries who were still colonies of England (Dr. Greene, Ewards). This federation failed because most countries wanted their independence and own identity. Even after independence, Caribbean people realised that we still needed to stay together to help each other compete in the global market.

CARICOM was viewed as medium to which the Caribbean could be a single mark even a single economy which would require open market and secure space for trading which is yet to be attained nevertheless CARICOM still has that noble notation of Caribbean Unity. However, each island was still concerned about their own survival. In this we can see how segregation a nasty sore from the past slavery condition is still mush apart of the 20th century Caribbean affecting our ability to co-operate with each other for the better good of the Caribbean. National pride seems to be hindering this unified Caribbean. Also, the fact that many Caribbean island are going through economic problems. The larger islands don’t want to be using their resources with each other for fear of depletion. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xal-teQHG4)
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The CARICOM Single Market and Economy is intended to benefit the people of the Region by providing more and better opportunities to produce and sell our goods and services and to attract investment. It will create one large market among the participating member states.

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My first night in Trinidad I was met with share surprise as my taxi driver stated, “I can’t wait for when Trinidadian start killing the **** Jamaicans and the all them small islander who coming here to take Trinidadian jobs”. Speechless I did not know how to respond to such a statement I could not understand why he felt that way.

After starting course 1011 Caribbean Civilization I further gained incite on why the was an overflowing of different diaspora with the Trinidad culture. It was shown that Trinidad culture is quite dynamic which attract people from across the Caribbean looking for a better life. The country economic system seems to be booming because of the oil industry. However, euro-centrism still exists with the society in the form of hatred towards their own Caribbean brethren. This aspect is creating riff between the foreigners and the locals who feel that their jobs are been treated while their government isn’t doing anything to cater to their needs. From my perspective it would seemed that some of the public is not well educated on the CARICOM. This system which allows for free movement of skilled laborers around the Caribbean seemly make the local uneasy to point where they talk about killing. Nevertheless it makes me feel uneasy to be here thus I have been counting the days for to returning to my home.
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