A closer look at the transition three months after the elections
Three months have passed since the government was voted into office on a promise to pursue a transformational agenda. A transition team was given the...
Commentary
President Putin’s actions are jeopardising economic peace and growth: The world should say “no more”
“Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa.” Those were the words of...
Caribbean food security and the private sector
London, England — Delivering Caribbean Governments’ ambitious plans to reduce the Caribbean’s huge food import bill will require significant levels of private sector investment. Gervase...
Budget Time Again
The public would be eagerly awaiting the presentation of the national budget for 2023. The transformative agenda of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] administration, for...
Is the new government being set up for failure? – Part IV
The ninety days period for the transition is fast approaching and to-date many persons have raised concerns with the transition and decisions of the team...
How sound is Grenada’s new NDC government transformational push? – Part IV
Despite electioneering is also being about diverse schemes for obtaining State Power, including manipulating and exploiting the minds and wishes of the people especially the...
OAS plays significant role for democracy in elections
There are intermittent squabbles in the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS), concerning the controversial general elections of October 20, 2019 in...
A mix of direct and indirect taxes
Traditionally, taxes have been the main source of government operational revenue in the countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union [ECCU]. This high dependence on...
Food security – The ultimate test of CARICOM’s relevance
In 2023, CARICOM will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Plans are underway for what may be a year-long celebration. Most governments, the secretariat, and regional institutions...
The digitalisation of Grenada’s history, heritage and culture
It is not without a doubt that we are in the 21st century, and fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, digitalisation and the use of digital...
COP-27 failing before it begins
The most ominous sign of what the forthcoming COP-27 meeting on climate change portends for small states is that officials from a Group of 20...
Another ban on leaders attending international meetings?
Once again, politicians in the U.S. are entangling the internal politics of their country with U.S. obligations to the international community. This time Senator Rick...
Is the New Government being set up for failure? – Part III
According to calypsonian Black Wizard, when the carnival is over there are still matters of national importance to address and the transition process of the...
Haiti sinking deeper into catastrophe: Who will save it?
Haiti has never been far from wide-scale human suffering, grave political instability, and grim economic underdevelopment. But its circumstances today are worse than they have...
How sound is Grenada’s new NDC government transformational push? – Part III
A political campaign based on a transformation agenda is not absolutely new; it is all about marketing for votes with a ‘plausible and palatable’ tagline...
Former Minister wrf Environment appointed UNFCC Executive Secretary
(Disclaimer: This commentary is offered in my personal, individual capacity. It expresses the views of I and I). Ah does always say that the New...
Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration? Part 3
So far in this attempt to answer the question, “Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration”, it has been established that, after almost 50...
Government Finances and the Economy
An assessment of the state of the public finances is important at this junction as the new administration of the National Democratic Congress [NDC] assumes...
Delivering food security
London, England — In 2023, CARICOM will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Plans are underway for what may be a year-long celebration. Most governments, the secretariat,...
How sound is the new NDC government transformational push? – Part II
The People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) of ‘violent palace-coup’ slayed Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, during March 1979 to October 1983, set aside the 1974 National Constitution...