THE headline captures two important factors in relation to solving crime. Time is of the essence and cannot be wasted …
Change Is Coming
(Final Part 1: An Education Syllabus For Meaningful Change) LAST week I posited the idea that change is fueled by …
Calypso – Start Solving The Problem Now
NOT surprisingly, the same song sung by calypsonians over the years was sung this year. It’s a song about no …
Mas Confusion
I don’t want to come to too much of an early conclusion on Carnival 2015. I don’t want to judge …
Is The People’s C.O.P. The PM’s ‘Wilful Blindness’?
By Alexis B. Montgomery AN unhappy episode is definitely unfolding as Saint Lucians observe, some with rapt attention, the questionable …
What If…?
By Stephen-Lester Prescott GUY Joseph’s misbehaviour in the House of Assembly last week has only served to highlight what could …
Change Is Coming – PART ONE
THE word ‘change’ was used to good effect in the campaign for the presidency of the U.S. in 2008. It …
Borrowing And Lending Behaviour In The OECS
Over the past eight years, I have been writing a weekly column for the Business Authority—an offshoot of the Barbados …
Where Have All The Public Thinkers Gone?
ERIC William’s edifying lectures on world history, Greek democracy and philosophy, the history of slavery, and the history of the …
Caribbean Parliamentary Comedy
I watched, listened and laughed at the way so many Saint Lucians made such a fuss against or in support …
A Common Visa Will Benefit Us All
I’M not one to always want to carbon-copy anything just because it works for somebody else, somewhere else. This cut-and-paste …
Social Media’s Dark Side Strikes again
AS wondrous and brilliant as Social Media might be, I would really like to be around when that giant is …
Walking The Same Sex Talk
(And here’s my final word at the end of that long national same-sex talk…) Finally, after one week, all the …
When A Poodle Thinks He Is A Bulldog
By stephen lester Prescott ABSENCE of former Prime Minister Stephenson King and, on occasion, Castries Central MP, Richard Frederick, there …
The Middle Class – Who They Are And Why They Matter
YOU may have realized that during every election cycle in the United States, presidential hopefuls on both sides of the …
Was The Speaker Right?
THE recent incident in the House between Hon. Guy Joseph and the Speaker caught my attention in relation to the …
Do Symbols Control The Way We Think?
THOSE who closely follow American politics were moved by the eulogy which President Obama recently delivered at the Mother Emmanuel …
The Joseph – Foster Clash
THE verbal clash between Guy Joseph, the parliamentary representative for the Castries South East Constituency and Speaker of the House …
Be Aware!
THE EDITOR: TODAY in St Lucia and in other small countries in the world, we are on the verge of …
Profit and Loss From ‘Rounding Off’
THE EDITOR: The phasing out of the one cent and two cents coins is likely to result in increased or …