I am all for congratulating Caribbean brethren but I'm not for taking pips for their accomplishments.
I congratulate Jamaica not only because of what they have achieved but because of the way they have done it. They have put great structure and effort into what they do despite limited financial resources compared to us.
Having said that Jamaica's medals do not count in Trinidad & Tobago's tally. Plain talk...bad manners!
If Jamaica has six gold, three silver and one bronze and we have two silvers and Bahamas one bronze as of writing then that is not a great Olympics for the Caribbean...that's a great Olympics for Jamaica.
As far as the inter-island bantering...I've met angels and assholes from every single island including ours so that is a moot point. You can't judge Caribbean relations based on a few people. I'm cool with all people and some of my best friends in college were from places like Peru, Kenya, France, Nigeria, Ecuador, USA, Cameroon, Bahamas, Turkey, Jamaica, Bahrain, Guatemala, USVI...you get the picture.
My take is if not us then I rather another Caribbean athlete/team gets the bounty simply because they are the ones we are most capable of emulating given our similarities. What we should do though is stop talking about emulating them and actually do it. Otherwise we'll always be sending congratulations up north instead of receiving them