I am not certain that the regional public is being educated sufficiently about the benefits and challenges of a monetary union, nor is the regional population being mobilized to support the move. We seem to take the position that the sense of community among the people of the region and our shared collective identity would pave the way for almost automatic buy-in.
That may have been so for my generation, where the West Indies cricket team and the University of the West Indies were two main institutions that effectively held the region together. But with tertiary education becoming more national in character, U.W.I. is not as unifying a force, as it used to be.