Let me start by confessing that I am no intellectual guru, but from observation and personal assessment, I reckon that …
Absence of common sense creates developmental retardation
Venezuela 2025: Caribbean Delegates Call on UN to Condemn Violation of its Charter by a Powerful Member-state
Caribbean delegates attending the closing forum of a new international entity established to expose and fight emerging fascist tendencies in …
The Companies We Keep
About 23 years ago, I penned a commentary in the Mirror Newspaper entitled “A Shady Business” in which I reflected …
Opposition Leader New Year’s Speech 2025: Hope Amidst Despair
Fellow Saint Lucians, Tonight, as the clock moves us into a new year, we must acknowledge that 2024 brought incredible …
Clarifying Misconceptions about the Panama Canal
RECENT remarks by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have drawn attention to the Panama Canal. He accused the Panama Canal Authority …
Venezuela 2025: A Celebration That Was and An Inauguration That Wasn’t!
Venezuela yesterday celebrated the start of President Nicolas Maduro’s third consecutive term and the 28th election victory of the ruling …
There Are Always More Questions Than Answers
Is it the state or the people deciding what laws should be punishable or outlawed? As we all know, time …
A House of Cards in St. Lucia’s Housing Sector
The role of a Housing Minister is crucial in shaping a nation’s housing policy and ensuring that citizens have access …
Venezuela in 2025: Engineering A New Future Under Continuing External Threats (Pt 2)
Venezuelans opened 2025 with high hopes and expectations following the brightest Christmas holidays in living recent memory for many, breaking …
Forget Begging Rich Nations: Caribbean Countries Should Act to Save Themselves
It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas …
A Performance Management System
Through this medium the writer extends a most cordial invitation to directors, managers, heads, and leaders of organizations, agencies, and …
Venezuela in 2025: Collisions of Coincidences, Collusion of Conspiracies, or Confluence of Ideas?
History has strange ways of linking events in different places in ways that can suggest unforeseen confluences of collisions, collusions …
The Joy of Dying
Having assumed a horizontal posture on my bed of death, I feel very comfortable that the moment of my terrestrial …
No Globalisation Without Migration
The way some leaders talk about ‘immigrants’ as 2025 begins, you’d never believe the whole wide world was built through …
How the World will Click, Tick and Talk in 2025
The last year of the First Quarter of Century 21 will start and end with new and old developments that …
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish? Part 2
When I began writing opinion pieces in this newspaper nearly 30 years ago, I was admonished by then editor Guy …
Caribbean and World Leaders for 2024 and Century 2021
I don’t go overboard every year cataloguing statements and actions by leaders and public personalities to grade them every December …
Revolving Misfortunes of the Southern Region
If my memory serves me right, some twenty-five to thirty years ago, the then Prime Minister, Sir John Compton, mentioned …
Saint Lucia Continues Experiencing ‘Progress on Steroids’ under Pierre Administration
A fellow regional political observer-also a colleague journalist, friend, and Comrade-responding to regional reports on the Saint Lucia Prime Minister’s …
Breaking the Chains of Poverty: A Need for Political Will
The year 2024 has underscored a grim reality: poverty continues to be an unyielding adversary, sowing division and instability in …