A leading Caribbean academic today warned that no good will come to the Caribbean as a result of billionaire businessman Donald Trump’s victory in yesterday’s presidential election in the United States.
In fact, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles suggested that Trump’s election was a retrograde step that would take the US back by several decades to the days of “plantation America” when blacks had little to no civil rights and white supremacy was key.
Sir Hilary, an economic historian, also warned of global economic fallout, as the stunning political decision in Washington takes hold of the entire world.
“My expectation is that we are going to see a deepening of the world recession because three quarters of humanity will assume that the United States no longer possesses the moral authority to direct the world economy,” Sir Hilary said during a post-US presidential election analysis at the UWI Mona Campus in Jamaica.
He also suggested that world trade would be adversely impacted based on the anti-free trade policies espoused by Trump on the campaign trail, and cautioned the Caribbean that this would have negative implications for both its imports and exports.
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