Mia Mottley

And the cost of it.

Exactly.

So all of these things we're saying, look, let's pause.

New York is a lovely place to be.

London is a lovely place to be.

Zurich is a lovely place to be.

But guess what?

It's a closed club.

And the closed club is not necessarily working for us because it doesn't make sense.

In COVID, I was told as a country that, oh, you can't benefit from...

things that we would like to give you therapeutics, vaccines, et cetera, because your per capita income is too high, your upper middle income as a country.

I said, but that ain't got nothing to do with people getting COVID here or the fact that I don't have ventilators or the fact that I don't have vaccines.

And when it really mattered, who was it that helped us?

It wasn't the North Atlantic countries.

We asked.

We had export restrictions put on us for equipment coming out of the US.

We had the UK refuse to give us even 10,000 vaccines, far less, whatever.

Prime Minister of India stood up.

And he gave us 100,000 vaccines.

I could have kept them all for Barbados, but when you live in a small community in the neighborhood, it's damn fair.