Mia Mottley

The GCM printed and printed and printed and quantitative easing.

So we have to find a way of letting some air, some oxygen, some transparency, some light, and to begin to see that the one size fits all rule will not work and that you have to be able to give a little elbow room.

Not a lot, but a little elbow room for us to do the things that we need to do to keep our people alive, to keep our people prospering, to not cause our people to want to get into the things that you complain about globally in terms of migration or crime or other things.

Yeah, I've always been...

I've always been fascinated by, like sometimes what I think is very short-term thinking from some of the bigger nations in that they'll often think about mass migration, but they don't seem to wonder why people are leaving the place that they're in.

The first part of me goes like, maybe it's just an arrogance.

I'll give you an example.

Yeah.

They do things that literally shoot themselves in the foot sometimes.

In what way?

In 2006 and seven.

There was a big debate about the International Criminal Court and the fact that the ICC, that U.S.

heads of state and army, military people did not want to be subject to prosecution.

And they went around the world trying to get countries to agree that they should be exempted.

And we in the Caribbean said, hey, we hear you, but one, it don't make sense because this is intended for all people.

But two, even if it wasn't, this is the idea of the former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, A.N.R.

Robinson.

And as a matter of solidarity, as well as principle, we can't do it.

They said, well, if you don't do it, we're going to withdraw all military aid from your countries.

Wow.