Diaspora Conference in Washington cont'd

This is a link to the wrap up session of the Diaspora conference earlier this month. The clip is about one and a half hours long but the first 15 or so minutes is a good summary of some of the main points.

I like the fact that there is talk about creating political action committee to lobby Washington. And of course there is more talk about a common database of skilled Caribbean nationals here in the US. We will have to wait and see what the effects of these talks are. It was pointed out that carnival plays a huge part of Caribbean Americans' lives and the effect that it can have in terms of reaching out to people. It is possible the best tool that we have in bringing the Caribbean diaspora together at this point. Hopefully we can build on this and have a strong community that is friendly to the Caribbean owned businesses here (in keeping with the aims of the CBD).