He may have said it in jest, but senior economic advisor to Prime Minister Mia Mottley, Professor Avinash Persaud, uttered a truism recently when he said the Caribbean was littered with more commissions and reports than probably any other region in the world.As he introduced the regional audience to the latest edition of a pathway to furtherance of regional integration, authored again by some of the Caribbean’s most esteemed academics, one cannot help but feel less than optimistic about this new effort.It was not too long ago we had the 1993 West Indian Commission led by Sir Shridath Ramphal, which sought the same illusive answers.
