Climate Change killing the Caribbean one cut after the other
Amid the feverish work to cope with both the public health and economic effects of COVID-19 on their populations, Caribbean governments can be forgiven for...
Commentary
‘The Patriotic Vine’
It began as a phenomenon and grew into a movement. Exactly fifty years ago, a group of young Grenadians began a political journey which was...
The Caribbean’s Place at the WTO
The Caribbean countries have an unusual place in international trade. Collectively they have a sizable GDP and population, similar to some developed economies. Judging their...
The buck stops with both of them
Recently I found myself between sleep and wake in a daze and thought I was in a dream with the main characters being Brer Anansi...
A cold wind is blowing from the north
London, England — Whether it chooses to take sides or not, the Caribbean is about to find itself swept up into the now almost inevitable...
A tale of two neighbours
Recent electoral events in Guyana and Suriname, which border each other on the north-eastern coast of the South American continent, display a remarkably different approach...
Resetting The National Sustainable Development Plan
Good Government: Legislative Requirement and Practical Elements In my previous article, I indicated that the National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP) should be anchored in the...
Admitted: I Am A Little Boy
“It is only a little boy or a little girl who will not admit it when they are wrong”. The above were the words used...
Is there a Sinister Plan behind the Coronavirus Control Bill?
There are many tools in the toolbox to deal with a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus. Wearing a mask, physical distancing, washing hands, testing,...
Emancipation Day Celebrates our Shared Humanity
This is my first Emancipation Day in Grenada. It is well worth celebrating that in 1833, across the British Caribbean, nearly a million people were...
Stand up! Resist!
I have listened to the comments made by the Prime Minister in his interview last Wednesday with GBN, particularly his declaration that his government will...
A permanent State of Emergency
Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 will go down in the history of Grenada as the day when maybe the dumbest and most authoritarian statement has been...
Time Will Run Out on Us Soon If We Do Not Change Course
The situation regarding three Trinidadians who recently tested positive for Covid 19 in their home country after living in Grenada for the last four months...
Transforming the Economy
Resetting the National Sustainable Development Plan In an earlier article published in April 2020, the lessons to be learnt from the Covid-19 global crisis were...
Guyana political circus has outrun its time
It is long past time for good sense to prevail in Guyana amongst the leadership of the APNU-AFC coalition that has been a caretaker government...
Capital Bank – It is coming around
Even if one is unwise enough to deny the existence of God, the Supreme being, there are immutable natural laws, which are plain to even...
Squandering a golden opportunity and playing Russian roulette with lives
The Honourable Prime Minister was correct to announce during his last national address that the country’s airports will remain closed to commercial flights for the...
Tax holidays can help aviation and tourism recover
London, England — After years of failing to find a way to reconcile whether LIAT, the Antigua based carrier, primarily serves the interests of shareholder...
Re-thinking CARICOM Development Model After COVID-19
Governments around the world, including in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, have emerged as the principal players in the health and economic crisis caused by the...
Where’s the Relief?
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) empathizes with the workers in the tourism and other sectors who are not earning because those sectors remain closed, and...