No Island is an Island: Selected Speeches of Sir Shridath RamphalMany of the speeches in this volume, delivered between the late 1980s and the late 1990s, reflect Sir Shridath Ramphal's concern for Caribbean unity, a concern which dates back to the short-lived Federation of the West Indies (1958-62). Those related to his role as Chair of the West Indian Commission provide an incisive commentary on both the urgent need for greater regional integration and the problems which lie in the way. But Ramphal is always aware of the Caribbean's position as part of a wider world, and brings a global perspective to his analysis of environmental and economic issues which affect all countries, but particularly those of the developing world, and to his discussion of the special problems of the small and vulnerable states of the Caribbean in a world increasingly dominated by large trading blocs.; |
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My colleagues and I on the Commission are no less clear in our minds that we will be of greater use to ourselves and the wider Caribbean if we first consolidate our core relations as a West Indian community ( by whatever name called ) ...
My colleagues and I on the Commission are no less clear in our minds that we will be of greater use to ourselves and the wider Caribbean if we first consolidate our core relations as a West Indian community ( by whatever name called ) ...
Page 140
... not with how to make the planet accommodate human excesses , but with how to make ourselves accept and adjust to the planet's capacities – how to end the self - delusion that the ultimate variable is the planet , not ourselves ?
... not with how to make the planet accommodate human excesses , but with how to make ourselves accept and adjust to the planet's capacities – how to end the self - delusion that the ultimate variable is the planet , not ourselves ?
Page 146
And , seeing ourselves thus through other eyes , would we go on to benefit , as Burns believed we should , from many a blunder freeing ourselves and foolish notions ? The answer must be ' yes ' that we must be willing to change course ...
And , seeing ourselves thus through other eyes , would we go on to benefit , as Burns believed we should , from many a blunder freeing ourselves and foolish notions ? The answer must be ' yes ' that we must be willing to change course ...
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Contents
No Island is an Island | 14 |
European unity Caribbean Challenges | 42 |
The Universe requires an eternity | 52 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | No Island is an Island: Selected Speeches of Sir Shridath Ramphal Warwick University Caribbean studies |
| Author | S. S. Ramphal |
| Editors | David Dabydeen, John Gilmore |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education Limited, 2000 |
| Original from | University of Texas |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333792629, 9780333792629 |
| Length | 180 pages |
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