St. Lucia Simply Beautiful is no more the popular phrase it once was, but there was a time when we, …
Paradise lost as we bid for First Place in Negativity!
A Bull in a China Shop
It is rather unfortunate that any administration is forced to work with non-team players at a time when there are …
Don’t wait for the pandemic to end, let’s get on with our lives!
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when …
The Advocacy Group – An Analysis of the First 100 Days of the Phillip J Pierre Government
THE ECONOMICS OF THE FIRST 100 DAYS While the 100 days mark is too short a period to assess the …
Domestic and Foreign Policy Approaches Revisited — Part 5
Never mind how foreign policy or international affairs are defined in a pre-election Manifesto, the dynamism of the process of …
Barbados’ Republican status is not a yen for pieces of silver
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also …
PTSD – The Political Loss of a Leader
According to Charles Bukowski, and I quote: “Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do …
Change Starts Within Us, Nowhere Else!
Looking at the situation of the upsurge in crime, it’s very clear that you may change the head of the …
Let’s give ‘Respect Due’ to those who’ve genuinely answered the Caribbean’s calls – like Sandals!
As the region’s hospitality sector tries to find its collective footing amidst the displacement brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, …
The Open School: On Helping Children to Read
LET me welcome my Open School students to the second lesson on Helping to read to Read. The school is …
Let Us Pause and Give Thanks to Yahweh!
“Be fast, have no regrets… If you need to be right before you move, you will never win.” Mike Ryan, …
Domestic and Foreign Policy Approach is Revisited — Part 4
If anything, the third virtual summit between the Chinese and American presidents has shown, crystal-clear, that when it comes to …
Domestic and Foreign Policy Approaches Revisited — Part 3
If change is the only constant, then that also includes the eternal mobility of international relations, which change with the …
World Bank recommendations not enough for Caribbean countries to prepare for new Climate shocks
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also …
Domestic and Foreign Policy Approach is Revisited — Part 2
The US private sector’s response to the Xi-Biden Summit must be neither overlooked, nor underestimated, because China, as The World’s …
We have to stop lying to ourselves!
This past Tuesday was very interesting near the House of Assembly. The return of the Leader of the Opposition to …
The Government of St. Lucia: Hitting at the ‘Nerve Centre’ of Poverty
THE government of St. Lucia was elected a little less than four months ago in a very popular election. The …
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
It is quite obvious that the SLP are unable to differentiate between a UWP Opposition Leader and one of their …
Domestic and Foreign Policy Approaches Revisited — Part 1
Saint Lucia, the Caribbean and the world have just got another example of the latest redefinitions of traditional Diplomatic Protocols …
Ode to Charles and Alex Bousquet
As I started writing this article eleven minutes after the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, …