Mia Mottley

But remember when Angela Merkel brought in a million people from- Syria when it was- Syria.

And it was like a shot of adrenaline because she understood that Germany was facing the worst possible future, a declining and aging population.

The irony is that's what we're facing in most Caribbean countries.

The ECLA agency predicts that in Barbados that one in every two people could be over the age of 65 by the year 2050.

One in every two.

That's crazy.

Oh, that's not a great ratio.

Exactly.

And in the case of Jamaica and Trinidad, 39-40%, somewhere around there.

So this is a real issue that we have to solve now, because we're 25 years away from that point in time.

At the same time, the Caribbean is a microcosm of almost most of the largest civilizations of the world.

It really is.

Not all, but most of them.

So you have African, you have European, you have Asian in every sense, Indian, Chinese, you have Middle Eastern, and you have the traditional Indians, most of whom were taken out.

But in St.

Vincent and in Belize, you still have the Garifuna.

In Dominica, you have the Caribs.

So you still have a few remaining.

And I like to believe that the Caribbean, because of our history, has a story to tell to the rest of the world and an example to share with the rest of the world.

We've not been perfect by any stretch of the imagination.