A Caribbean think tank leader has called for urgent reform of the global financial system, arguing that entrenched inequalities and historical injustices continue to stifle the region’s development and climate resilience.

In a speech at the Caribbean Policy Development Centre’s (CPDC) latest regional launch, executive director Richard Jones called on global powers to dismantle discriminatory financial architectures and historical legacies.

He told an audience of delegates from 12 nations at the premiere of “Tides of Debt”, a CPDC documentary exploring the realities of sovereign debt, climate vulnerability and economic resilience across the Caribbean, Jones framed the region’s current economic and environmental struggles not as accidents of geography, but as the direct consequences of centuries of exploitation.