Caribbean leaders recently began two full days of meetings in tourism paradise, Grenada, which was recently leveled by Hurricane Beryl.
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“If someone chooses to bomb your country, it’s existential but easy to stop. You negotiate, you call a truce. Explain to the citizens of Carriacou and Petite Martinique how we will stop these Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes from hitting them. That is why Caricom must, shall, and will continue to advocate for climate justice. The stark reality that we may not have a country to pass on to future generations,” he said to applause from colleagues and invitees.
Mitchell, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali, and Secretary General Carla Barnett all talked about the effects of climatic change on the region, with the host noting that Caricom cannot flinch from its efforts “to advocate for climate justice.
“We have to now fight to ensure we build systems that work for us are not systems that are imposed upon us. We have to build systems that work for our region. We have to trust in ourselves. We have to have faith in each other and we have to have hope about the future. We can define ourselves or continue to allow ourselves to be defined.”
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