Why 84 countries are borrowing from the IMF
In the wake of the economic damage done by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in every continent of the world have turned to...
Commentary
The Patriotic Vine…. New age politics
The signs are troubling! Grenadian politics has entered another dangerous, demonising phase. The evidence is mounting rapidly. A duty falls on some of us to...
Grenadians should not take this situation lightly
The recent war of words between the leader and a former ambassador should not be taken lightly and seen as just a spat between the...
Get illegal migrants vaccinated
Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country. Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing COVID-19 and...
Prime Minister’s explanations on resignation of Ambassador Newfield and protecting the integrity of Grenada’s CBI
The resignation of Ambassador Warren Newfield, Citizenship by Investment Developer (?) and the Prime Minister’s comments/explanations and performance in Parliament as he offered his comments/explanations...
The Patriotic Vine… Things that hurt Grenada
I can hear her reciting on TV with conviction, that brave and innocent schoolgirl. She stresses, “I have taken my stand against corruption”! To whom...
Gullible Grenada
Yes, that’s exactly what we are as an overall population – Gullible. Keith Claudius Mitchell (Khief, that’s his name and nature) is able to win...
The ting just start …
My most recent article, about three weeks ago, entitled “A Pure Pimp’s Paradise” called on Grenadians to pay attention to the CBI Program and the...
The leader is wrong-sided in dealing with Covid-19
The saying, ‘like a thief in the midnight’ means an occurrence, person or a disease appear swiftly, suddenly or stealthily without warning. However, in reality...
Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19
Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, even before the novel coronavirus was...
National debt dilemma
With a public debt, as derived from the Debt Report from the Ministry of Finance, of approximately 2.6 billion dollars or 85.4 percent of GDP,...
The Patriotic Vine… Coalition…tricks and traps
In November 2010, Chester Humphrey declared this on national TV: “The Prime Minister must remember that the NDC was elected by a coalition of forces...
The Grenada Movement must be challenged
The Grenada Movement (TGM), under the ‘leading founder’ and Chairperson of Grenadian Economist Dr. Patrick Antoine, was launched on 7th October, 2020 as “an NGO...
Vaccinate or suffocate – the stark choice
Sections of the population in many of the 14 independent CARICOM countries are in grave danger of undermining their own health and economic interests by...
Decisive action needed to develop effective messaging to increase vaccine take up
As I reflected on how the political temperature in the United States declined after the elections; and the contrasting leadership styles of former President Donald...
The Ambassador Newfield revelations
If there is one hallmark of the NNP administration under Dr. Keith Mitchell, one signal feature, one thing that is identifiable with Khief’s NNP, is...
Just justice
I recall a key mantra of the Grenada Revolution, “Not just a society, but a just society”. This is exactly what our people are crying...
The Patriotic Vine… Lofty, loud and lacking
Confession! I was prepared to support him in politics as the Grenadian equivalent of the ‘Saul – Paul’ conversion of biblical record! Alas, I have...
Shut-down of beach restaurant
Is Minister Nicholas Steele his brother’s keeper or a selfish man? The Ministry of Health and the Grenada Government’s wretched temporary shutdown of the Coconut...
Time to tighten up on enforcement of current protocols
As the pandemic continues to rage in other parts of the world, Grenada will face a clear and present danger from Covid-19 and be at...