HOW serious can we take the various New Year messages and forecasts? In essence, many boil down to telling the …
What’s In The Cards For 2018?
Flawed WTO Arbitration Remains Better Option, Despite US View
THE new United States Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, made his first appearance at a Ministerial meeting of the World Trade …
Yay or Nay to National Day?
I started writing these thoughts with a cynical view of National Day. Why should Saint Lucians celebrate anything related to …
St. Jude and the Art of the Con — Part 10: No Plans?
WHEN stating during his media interview of August 14, 2016 that he had initiated a technical audit of the St. …
Hewanorra Must Remain An Indigenous Entity
THE reconstruction of the Hewanorra International Airport was first mooted by the UWP administration in 2009 and this project was …
Deliver The Golding Report On CARICOM
WHAT has become of the Report of a Jamaican Commission that reviewed the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)? It …
Man Was Born Tabula Rasa: A Philosophy of Education in Relation to Violence and Crime in St. Lucia — Part 4
CRIME is now on the attack! It means, therefore, that a battle of war has been waged against violence and …
Caribbean Female Leadership Needed
WOULD female leadership change the Caribbean? Most likely, it will! It is all about the characteristics of how the members …
Comply Or Else: The EU Blacklist
THE Council of the European Union (CEU) published its much anticipated “List of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes” on December …
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 …