The fear of having to support the smaller islands which was illustrated by the Jamaica Labour Party’s cartoon, “Sucking Me Dry” and Trinidad’s iconic phrase, “One from Ten leaves Nought”.
BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  Today, the smaller islands are receiving a large number of migrants from Jamaica and Guyana, and are running very large trade and services imbalances with Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. The economic arrangements in CARICOM are dysfunctional with no redistributive mechanisms.