00:00Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Professor Kanu Thompson
00:04shares his views on what ascended Donald Trump to the presidency of the United
00:08States. I'm positing that white supremacy and patriarchy are among the major
00:19factors responsible for the Trump-Wayne Harris loss. As for what he expects from
00:25the Trump administration. We now have threat of white reparations and of
00:32gender equality and up to funding studies for non-white issues on
00:39marginalization. We have Musk being the make America efficient czar. We have
00:47January 6 rioters pardoned and the question I ask is this a sustainable
00:54vision. Political scientist Professor Hamid Ghani notes that Trump's black
00:59and Latino votes increased compared to what he received in 2020 as he refers to
01:04a change in the Republican Party from what he calls a country club party. He
01:09has changed it and has brought in more Hispanic Latino voters more black voters
01:15voters of different hues. Senior lecturer in political science at UE Dr.
01:22Christina Hines says US foreign policy concerning the Caribbean has been stable
01:27since the Cold War and she doesn't expect to see much of a change in that
01:31regard. She further expects the US embargo on Cuba to continue. However in
01:36relation to Trump's ideas on illegal immigrants she states that Caribbean
01:41citizens made up about 4% in 2022 or 462 thousand of that total and could be
01:49impacted. Dr. Hines adds that Haitians including those with temporary status
01:54could also be fearful at this time. They may be worried that their temporary
01:58protective status can be revoked and they will be sent back their fear may be
02:02to a very volatile Haiti at present. These are not issues that are unimportant
02:08for people who are in the Caribbean and who may care about the Caribbean. However
02:13political and social psychologist Professor Christopher Charles doesn't
02:17believe the situation will be as bad as what was outlined on Trump's campaign
02:22trail. The promise of 20 million and the mass deportation the nature of America
02:28in terms of court challenges different stakeholders it's difficult to determine
02:33who who is illegal just by looking at someone therefore means that deportations
02:41will continue but I don't foresee the mass deportation as promised it's not
02:47at least not in the short to medium term. But one area where Dr. Hines believes
02:52there could be benefit for the region is with regards to Trump's goal to decrease
02:56corporate taxation to the global minimal benchmark of 15% down from around 21% at
03:04present. She says Republicans have been known to place less focus on tax evasion
03:09than Democrats. The Obama administration was very much focused on the Caribbean
03:15as being a place where there's high tax evasion and you know a lot of monitoring
03:20by anti money money laundering rules and regulations. So that may be one area
03:27that perhaps some may see there being a more favorable sort of response.
03:34Meanwhile Dr Indira Rampersad says it's left to be seen how Trump's rule will
03:39impact Venezuela TNT and the dragon gas deal. Alicia Boucher TV6 News.
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