Global trade winds push Caribbean unity

Enthusiasts for a Caribbean free trade zone see an opportunity to boost the region's economies. Sceptics recognize the value of this goal but point to many obstacles in the way of greater integration. Leticia Lozano reports.

WHILE THE WORLD watches the latest convulsion in Haiti, attention has been diverted away from a more promising development underway across the Caribbean economies. They could in less than two years make the biggest leap in their history with the implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

The CSME is a free trade zone comprising 14 million people that aims to give the region a chance to develop its manufacturing and service industries, which today play second fiddle to tourism.

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