It would not have crossed the minds of those perceiving the “small island threat” that “small” Dominica is almost twice the size of Barbados, it is the false image of unemployed “small islanders” which would arouse fear. But even in the “small islands” there existed such imagined fear. It came out in Dominica which experimented with Haitian farm and domestic workers. Fortunately, the world is moving forward, people are better educated if not always better informed and for young people in particular, the world is their home, chock full of opportunities for development and self-advancement. It is into this world that four Caribbean states- Barbados, Belize, Dominica and our own St Vincent and the Grenadines- have jointly stepped, leading the tide for the deepening of Caribbean integration.