In 2001, Price received the Order of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Caricom’s most prestigious award conferred on those members of the community who have advanced the cause of regionalism. It could not seriously be urged that he had contributed anything substantial to advance the cause of Caribbean regionalism.

Trade unionism was the acknowledged route to political power in the Caribbean and Price, Burnham and Barrow were involved to varying degrees with trade unions but ultimately, it seems, primarily as a means of obtaining or consolidating party political power... In British Honduras, Price, along with a core of at least five others, formed first the People’s Committee (PC) at Price’s home following the devaluation of the British Honduras currency in December 1949.

Any discussion about the charismatic leaders of the decolonization process in the Commonwealth Caribbean during the late 1950s and 1960s would undoubtedly include the leaders of the so-called “big four” countries: Michael Manley of Jamaica, Forbes Burnham of Guyana, Eric Williams of Trinidad and Tobago and Errol Barrow of Barbados.