Mia Mottley

You go to England, Gary Sobers.

You go to India, Gary Sobers.

He's still living.

He is our first living national hero.

Rihanna joined him a few years ago.

And for me, you know what's special?

Both of them grew up within a mile of Bridgetown in humble circumstances.

And both of them came to be the greatest of all in the field that they have been practicing in.

So smallness and poverty and circumstances of birth or geography do not define us.

And that must always, always, always be kept ever most in our minds and as we raise our children.

Nobody's better than us and we're not better than anybody.

But we have the capacity to be the best that we can be and sometimes our best will actually be better than everyone else.

Talk to me about the Bridgetown Initiative.

Yeah.

So that's just a way of us being able to encapsulate a lot of what we've been discussing.

Yeah, but it's so fascinating.

Please just talk us through it because I think regardless of where you're from, it's great to hear amazing ideas that could shape any corner of the globe.

Talk to me about the idea at its inception and what you hope it achieves.

So we realized that

The things that we've been speaking about aren't unique to us.