This is in response to an article in Mondays' Gleaner titled "Water on sale from Trinidad". I find it very disheartening to think that such flawed concerns, so lacking in thinking and scope, exist in this day and age. Second, nobody complains of the many foreign (i.e. US, UK, etc) products and bottles of water flooding Jamaican supermarkets that are more exorbitantly priced and doing nothing to promote regionalism.

To me, this all boils down to a crab-in-a-barrel mentality, which seems ubiquitous on the island. Why target Trinidad and Tobago, the country that has graciously opened up its market to Grace, Cooyah and yes, even plantain chips; the island that literally keeps the University of the West Indies, Mona, afloat financially, and which has welcomed the now-millionaire jerkmen of Jamaica to our islands? We have relished the cultural and culinary exchange.

However, one can't help but wonder if these 'concerns' stem from the recent run-in Jamaican products (patties) had with Trinidad's health-inspection tests. As one person rightly said, the Trinidad and Tobago government is well within its rights to take measures to protect its citizens

CARICOM can never succeed if we constantly pit ourselves against each other and complain about such trivial things.

I am, etc.,

Concerned Citizen