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Today, nearly twenty-six years since Dickenson Bay, and over eighteen years since Chaguaramas, we frequently find ourselves engaged in searching evaluation of that to which we had set our hand in these two land-mark instruments, and of how we have fared along the road that has brought us to this point. In this appraisal, we are profoundly aware of two basic truths: firstly, that the goals of Dickenson Bay and Chaguaramas are still largely unfulfilled; and secondly, that whatever the reasons for the non-attainment of these goals up to the present time, the need for integration, economic and otherwise, among Caribbean countries, remains a compelling imperative.

Today, nearly twenty-six years since Dickenson Bay, and over eighteen years since Chaguaramas, we frequently find ourselves engaged in searching evaluation of that to which we had set our hand in these two land-mark instruments, and of how we have fared along the road that has brought us to this point. In this appraisal, we are profoundly aware of two basic truths: firstly, that the goals of Dickenson Bay and Chaguaramas are still largely unfulfilled; and secondly, that whatever the reasons for the non-attainment of these goals up to the present time, the need for integration, economic and otherwise, among Caribbean countries, remains a compelling imperative.