Important business decisions are increasingly likely to be taken in neighbouring Trinidad rather than Barbados.
It was led by Sir David Simmons, a respected former chief justice of Barbados.
Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.
For Cubans, the terrorism list was a particularly charged issue because of the US history of supporting exile groups responsible for attacks on the island, including the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger flight from Barbados that killed 73 passengers.
But, particularly in Barbados, there were too many loose deliveries, dragged down or full tosses – a result perhaps of trying to spin the ball too hard when on a helpful surface.
Barbados: This island is enjoying a surge of popularity but you won't run into your neighbours at the 10-roomed Little Arches on the island's south coast at Enterprise Beach.
Way to go BIWA (British West Indian Airways) fly to Guyana via Antigua, St Lucia, Barbados or Port of Spain from London Heathrow or Manchester International from £605 return.
So it seems this year the Blairs are off to Barbados to stay with either (depending on your choice of daily newspaper) top Christian and Wimbledon a cappella ace Sir Cliff Richard (a £3 million mansion) or leading Tory backer and JCB digger maestro Sir Anthony Bamford at his Heron Bay paddette (no price available, but recently refurbished for countless millions).
BARBADOS ITC Classics (01244 355 550; itcclassics.co.uk) has seven nights' B&B at Tamarind Cove on Paynes Bay from £1,270 (saving £540) for travel until 31 January, including flights from Gatwick and transfers.
The teams now move on to Barbados for a three-match T20 series as a precursor for their World T20 campaigns that follow in Bangladesh.
Reflexology is his trade - learnt by correspondence course and then extra training in Barbados - and he can just see the stress slipping away as he pummels and presses those feet.
