Facts, due process and fairness: The CCJ’s test
I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described its creation...
Sir Ronald Sanders
Nicaragua’s abandoned ballot: What the OAS can and cannot do
Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to remove their...
Transparency, sovereignty, and the challenge of power
Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation is expected,...
The beacon of freedom seen across oceans: Reflections on 250 years of American Independence
Two hundred and fifty years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Philadelphia summer, a small group of men did something without precedent in modern...
If the OAS did not exist, it could not be created today
I have spent a decade in the councils of the Organization of American States. I have watched governments come and go, seen some crises handled...
Why the Commonwealth matters again
Small and medium-sized states, from the most vulnerable island nations to more diversified middle‑income economies, have always faced a difficult reality. They have to navigate...
Language is Infrastructure
Why Antigua and Barbuda’s adoption of Spanish as a second official language matters Antigua and Barbuda is one of the smaller countries of the Caribbean....
Not charity, but repair: A response to Pope Leo’s slavery apology
Signed on 15 May 2026 and released on 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, marks a significant moment in the long...
The OAS faces a moral test in Panama
An attempt is now being made by a few member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), using procedural manoeuvres, to prevent a proposed...
The Caribbean’s limits in absorbing other States’ deportees
Migration policy is a matter of sovereign control. Governments assert, rightly, their authority to regulate borders, determine who may enter, and enforce their laws. The...
Territorial claims are decided in court, not worn on a lapel
There are moments in international affairs when a seemingly small act reveals a much larger contest of principle. The recent controversy over the wearing, during...
Resolving CARICOM’s leadership impasse
As with all my commentaries, this one is strictly in my personal capacity, drawing on more than fifty years of engagement with Caribbean affairs and...
The cost of Netanyahu’s wars
When the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced on 7 April 2026, the immediate reaction across much of the world was...
The cost of silence: How the OAS is undermining its own relevance
The Organisation of American States is approaching a defining test, not of its existence, but of its significance. It continues to meet, to commemorate events,...
War in Iran, pain in the Caribbean
The war in Iran is already at Caribbean doors. The attacks in Iran and the Gulf are being justified by some on the grounds that...
Haitians should not be forgotten or left stranded
Amid the current turmoil in the world, it is important that, in the Americas, we should not forget the urgent humanitarian and political crisis confronting...
Who gains, who loses: The global cost of the Iran war, and the Caribbean fallout
It is a mistake to believe that the war in Iran and the retaliatory actions in the Gulf are too far away to matter to...
Reinvigoration with purpose: Rubio, CARICOM, and the work of Diplomacy
When Marco Rubio arrived in St. Kitts to address the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, he did so only hours after attending...
If US Secretary Rubio attends CARICOM summit – Let it mark a reset — Not a reckoning
If U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accepts the invitation to attend the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St Kitts and Nevis from 25...
The end of the illusion in Haiti: What next?
February 7 matters in Haiti – not because it promises relief, but because it marks the end of an illusion. On that date, the mandate...