Mia Mottley

It's about fairness.

We started the conversation with Rihanna about that.

It's about fairness.

That's why Bridgetown's name is put to it.

It's about decolonization.

It's about creating opportunities and bringing light in.

And we're not asking for any special favor.

We're asking, Jess, for transparency and fairness.

And remember what I said, equality for equals, proportionality for unequal.

And that's what the Bridgetown Initiative is about, fundamentally.

Let me ask you this before I let you go.

And it gets technical for the economists and financiers in terms of the capital adequacy framework and the ratios and all that.

But fundamentally, this is what is about, fairness.

When you speak to people who are from larger countries, when you speak to somebody who's in England, in the United States, in France, wherever they may be,

How do you make them see, or what do you say to them that helps them understand why their fate is tied to yours when it doesn't seem apparent?

Well, I think climate, as I said, has done a great, great job, circumstances, in proving that point for us.

Because they begin to see similarities in what's happening.

The difference is that because we are small, we have wipeout risk.

They don't.

They can live to see another day.