Ahead Of Secretive OAS Foreign Ministers Meeting In Washington Next Week. SOME keen observers of Venezuelan politics today have described …
Venezuelaâs Friends Hoping For The Best, But Fearing The Worst!
Inglorious Empire: Parallels of Indian and West Indian Exploitation
THE yearnings for power and wealth of the stone-cold dead British Empire echoed amongst the older generation throughout the shires …
Europe and America Dodging Demands for Reparations For Slavery
THE recent furor in Grenada over whether slave history has a role in the islandâs tourism promotion and this monthâs …
(How) To Gain A Country â Part 2
THOSE who suggest that we have a right to any money arising from the sale of St. Lucian citizenships and …
The Politics of Church and State â Part 2
LATEST developments in Venezuela have again brought into focus the ongoing relationships not only between Church and State but also …
A Generation of Miscreants?
LAST week Wednesday, I went to the Gros Islet Secondary School for a Reading Month activity. The children at the …
It Was About Time
DONâT say that I donât give kudos and praise when things are good and that I only focus on the …
Politics of Church and State
I always note that everything that happens here â and across the Caribbean — has an equivalent elsewhere in our …
Pigeon Island and the Nature of Saint Lucian Democracy
âI disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.â– Beatrice Hall …
(How) To Gain A Country â Part One
AS we persist with this examination of TAK, we emphasize that this examination is more truly of ourselves and how …
Press Released
WHAT the twilight says about the future of the media is certainly not lost in hyperbole or ambiguity, particularly in …
Politics of Government and Business of Governance
THE first round of the 2017/18 Saint Lucia Budget Debate brought into sharp focus the different approaches of the islandâs …
St. Jude â We Like It So? â (Part 3)
âBE wary of anyone who professes to be a seeker of truth and the pursuit of such truth by others …
Debt Strangling A Caribbean Generation
THERE is a real prospect that, in dealing with unsustainable debt, 11 of 13 Caribbean small states would have lost …
Haitiâs Lifelong Tragedy Continues To Unfold!
THE US Department of Homeland Security has been advised to end by January 2018 temporary protection enjoyed by over 50,000 …
Statement by the Catholic Church on the DSH Project and other Social Issues
IN light of recent events affecting the citizenry of Saint Lucia, at home and abroad, with regard to the proposed …
Caracas To âVexitâ From OAS-But Where Do CARICOM and OECS Stand?
SAINT LUCIA finds itself this weekend slapdash in the middle of an unfolding situation thatâs already tearing CARICOM (and possibly, …
An Education For Democratic Citizenship
IN her address to Saint Lucia’s Parliament on the occasion of the Second Session of the Eleventh Parliament, Her Excellency …
Why We Canât Wait
MARTIN Luther King wrote a very compelling book entitled âWhy We Canât Waitâ. He declared that it was now or …
Globalization Disadvantaged Small States
GLOBALIZATION was originally a construct of industrialized nations whose economic activity had developed sufficiently to withstand competition within their own …