THE Council of the European Union (CEU) published its much anticipated “List of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes” on December …
Comply Or Else: The EU Blacklist
St. Jude and the Art of the Con — Part 9: Whose Fraud?
PRIME Minister Allen Chastanet has rejected suggestions that an independent review of that EC$1 million Technical Audit of the St. …
Leadership Qualities
I WISH to refer to the opinion given by Mr. Kensley Peter Charlemagne in respect to the kind of Prime …
A Deputy Essential! So, Too, Constitutional Reform! — Part 2
THERE are two important lessons for St. Lucia from the British practice of electing the presiding officers for their House …
We Need A Person Of Objectivity In The Prime Minister’s Chair
LOOKING to run an election campaign sometime ago, I was expounding my independent philosophy. I thought I did it well …
Demonstrations Will Not Neutralize Legal Proceedings
DEMONSTRATION tactics have their ups and downs, but the recent St. Jude demonstration was nothing more than a smoke screen, …
Political Keep-Fit Classes
WITH the rising popularity of walks and run-walks for every purpose under the Earth, it would appear that our political …
English As A Second Language
I read with great interest an article in our local press entitled, “National Language Policy Pending“, by Micah George, where …
St. Jude and the Art of the Con — Part 8: Under the Microscope or the Proctoscope?
“IT’S the responsibility of the media to examine the President with a microscope, but they go too far when they …
A Deputy Essential! So, Too, Constitutional Reform! — Part 1
ST. LUCIA’S model of government is inherited from and based on the British system of Westminster Parliamentary democracy. Under this …
Climate Change Consequences Worsening
(This commentary is excerpted from the writer’s presentation to the Caribbean Actuarial Association’s 27th annual conference in Nassau, Bahamas on …
Grace Mugabe: An Alternative View
CONTRARY to popular assertions, Grace Mugabe was not the undoing of her husband, Robert. He was his own undoing. From …
St. Jude and the Art of the Con — Part 7: A Double Tragedy
THE second tragedy to befall St. Jude Hospital following the fire of 2009 arises from the notion that Vieux Fort …
Economic Reality and Crime
THE most recent information highlighted by Edwin St. Catherine from the Department of Statistics is certainly good news in nature …
The Race To The Bottom In The Caribbean
How long will it take for our Caribbean leaders to learn a simple lesson that has been so eloquently put …
St. Jude and the Art of the Con — Part 6: The Danger of Hindsight
WE stopped last week with a repetition of the plea from the Chairman of the Board of St. Jude that …
St. Lucia Belongs To The Majority And Not The Minority
HAVING spent fifteen days abroad for personal reasons, I had the opportunity to reflect on the political wranglings in St. …
Mugabe: A Graceful Coup
WHEN independence was finally wrenched from Britain in April 1980, Zimbabwe was described as the “jewel of Africa” by Tanzania’s …
Are Choiseulians That Hungry?
WHERE some see a goldmine, others see a disaster. Greed drives us to sell the skins on our flesh for …
Congrats To The SRPs On 61st Anniversary
CONGRATULATIONS to the Royal St. Lucia Special Reserve and by extension the Royal St. Lucia Police Force on the celebration …