AS 2017 drew to a close and I reflected on the happenings in my once idyllic Saint Lucia, it was …
Can The Centre Hold When Things Are Falling Apart?
LETTER: Hospitality Begins Outside The Castries Market
Dear Editor, Happy New Year to you and yours. Though I wish the same for our farmers and market vendors, …
Finally, LUCELEC’s Negotiations Are Over!
ONE couldn’t help but sigh when remarks about the conclusion of negotiations with LUCELEC were made at a union’s recently-held …
Urgent Traffic Attention
MOST St. Lucians will agree that the traffic situation needs attention but, more importantly, the influx of used vehicles from …
Contesting Caribbean Subservience in the Age of Trump
THERE was an overwhelming vote within the United Nations General Assembly against the United States’ unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as …
2018 Will Test CARICOM’s Collective Resolve
IN 2018, unless Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries eschew their tendency to pursue narrow “national interests” in the conduct of their …
What’s In The Cards For 2018?
HOW serious can we take the various New Year messages and forecasts? In essence, many boil down to telling the …
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, …