“THE great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is that the one sees into the future while the …
The Statesman vs The Pretender
POLITICAL ETHNICITY
ON Tuesday night I listened to a live stream of a political event in Trinidad, where the People’s National Movement …
Climate Change – Time For Talking Is Over
IMAGINE if on the anniversary of its independence the friendliest message your nation gets is that if your country sinks …
Time and Money In The Investigative Process
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 …