It also expresses concern about the regional institution's lack of accountability, its cost, and an institutional structure that leaves the CARICOM Secretariat without any executive authority to act.Ībove all, its conclusions attest to the absence for more than a decade of regional leadership and vision at a time when the world and international relationships have been changing, and economic globalisation has been reshaping the region's economy and its future. Importantly, it asks questions about regional integration process' failure to deliver observable social gains questions why there has been a lack of political will to do much more than agree that something must be done and observes CARICOM's failure to involve the private sector and Caribbean citizens, particularly the young. While the report makes 33 specific recommendations, its overall analysis goes to the heart of the region's present malaise. It speaks about the region's historic failure to modernise, to act on its decisions, and the need to take the long overdue steps that are required if CARICOM is to become relevant to the way the region and the world now is. The report, produced under the Chairmanship of the former Jamaican Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, and finally tabled in the country's Parliament on February 7, does not pull its punches.
This is because not since the Ramphal report, 'Time for Action', published just over a quarter of a century ago, has such clear and incisive language been used about the failings of the regional integration process, and what is needed by way of remedy. There will likely be much written in the coming weeks about the detail contained in the long-awaited Golding Report reviewing Jamaica's Relations with CARICOM and CARIFORUM.
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