GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, October 20, 2025 - For generations, the Caribbean Sea has been upheld as a Zone of Peace. That is no accident. It was built by the conscious decisions of leaders and peoples who understood their history — the horrors associated with captivity — a people who value freedom, who fought for their sovereignty and who ought to cherish, with the last breath in our bodies, the right to self-determination in dictating our future.

