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Akash Sama­roo

Re­port­ing from Ja­maica

In a part­ing mes­sage as she demit­ted of­fice as Cari­com Chair, Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley is­sued a cryp­tic warn­ing about a loom­ing threat, one that she cau­tioned could un­der­mine the in­de­pen­dence and sov­er­eign­ty of mem­ber states and pose the great­est chal­lenge to re­gion­al free­dom since the era of in­de­pen­dence.