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Article: The Caribbean - Small states, big money.(problems of Caribbean financial services industry)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2000
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ST GEORGES, GRENADA
AT THIS month's United Nations millennium summit, Lester Bird, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, used his five-minute slot to accuse the world's rich countries of "the most blatant disregard for the rules of international law", complaining that "rules no longer apply" and that "only might is right".
Tired bluster, perhaps, of a kind familiar at the UN. But behind it lies a cry of pain from a group of the world's smallest countries. Antigua (population: 70,000) is one of the six small independent island nations which, along with Montserrat (still a British Overseas Territory), make up the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean ...