Write an essay reflecting your views on Kerron’s response. Illustrate and support your position with  reference to any one Caribbean country of your choice.

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Rhoda Rabs emigrated from the Caribbean to Toronto in her twenties to pursue employment 
opportunities and have “a better life”. Rhoda has achieved her career goals in Toronto and has been 
able to help support her extended family financially in the Caribbean through regular remittances 
over the past 20 years. An island girl at heart, Rhoda would like to retire in the Caribbean within the 
next 15 years, in this regard she has opened a deferred annuity retirement account with a major 
Caribbean insurance company and is considering further equity and bond investments in the 
Caribbean in preparation for her retirement. 
During a recent family reunion trip, Rhoda shared her investment and retirement plans with her 
nephew Kerron who is a second year student at the UWI faculty of Social Sciences. Kerron’s reply 
was as follows:
“Aunty Rhoda I have just completed a course in Financial Institutions & Markets and I can give you 
three good reasons NOT to invest in the Caribbean: (1) No one knows how interest rates are 
determined in the Caribbean. (2) Caribbean banks are poorly regulated resulting in frequent financial 
crises. (3) Caribbean stock markets show zero signs of market efficiency. In other words Aunty 
Rhoda, our financial systems in the Caribbean are weak.”
Required:
Write an essay reflecting your views on Kerron’s response. Illustrate and support your position with 
reference to any one Caribbean country of your choice. 

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