Don’t Just Leave
How Caribbean Professionals Build Careers That Survive AI
Don’t Just Leave is a career strategy book for Caribbean professionals asking what artificial intelligence means for their work — and whether to emigrate because of it. It challenges emigration as the default answer and sets out five paths: stay, go, circulate, return, or build for the world from a Caribbean base — toward capability no employer, market, or country can repossess.
For a generation of Caribbean professionals the plan has been the same: get the qualification, then get out. This book does not argue against leaving. It argues against leaving unexamined — and it holds the five paths open on equal terms, judged by one standard: sovereign standing ground, the capability a working life can rest on.
The builders in its pages include those who stayed by choice and those, like Arthur Lewis, constrained by necessity. Throughout, the book works as an honest broker of the evidence: sources are given in the notes to each chapter, contested claims are attributed rather than asserted, and the limits of the data are stated where they fall.
Production
- ISBN (paperback)978-976-8369-01-7
- ISBN (ebook)978-976-8369-02-4
- Extent211 pp (paperback)
- Trim129 × 198 mm (B format)
- TypefaceEB Garamond
- PrinterPrinted and bound by Bookvault
- Published16 July 2026
- ImprintThe Sovereign Press, an imprint of The Forrester Group (Guyana), Inc.
- ErrataCorrections record
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