Caribbean Leaders need to take US Government to task

THE time has come for Caribbean Leaders to take a stand against the US Government for its arbitrary decisions and the proliferation of American-manufactured arms and ammunition within our region, which have escaped detection of that country’s Customs Service. For too long we have seen the deportation of Caribbean nationals, who have been residing in the US for decades, to their country of birth. Many of these deportees had left the region whilst as children and had inculcated the attitudes, behaviour, norms and mores of the society within which they grew to adulthood. On return to the Caribbean region, these deportees have no fixed place of abode, no close relatives who are willing to accept them and little or no knowledge of the country’s economy and topography. Because of the stigma attached to deportees, many people are scared to employ them and most of them would seek refuge among gangs to satisfy their basic needs. Many deportees would not join gangs only to satisfy those needs but also to share, teach and execute the advanced criminal knowledge they gained while growing up in the US. Additionally, drug addicts are also among deportees, and when members of this category of deportees do not have money to satisfy their cravings, they sometimes beg, steal or kill to acquire it. The need therefore arises for Caribbean Heads of Government to collectively carry the fight to the self-proclaimed World’s Police for them to control or tame the monsters they created.