BARACK Obama will not get the credit he deserves for his sensible and sometimes visionary Presidency of the United States …
The Curious Polities Of Disadvantaging Your Own
Chickens Have Come Home To Roost
FOR years, Allen Chastanet has been telling all and sundry, locally and internationally, that he was a “degreed” economist. Just …
Why Not Write Our Own Constitution?
I listened to and read all I could about what everybody else had to say about the Report and the …
King Has Learnt Nothing
THE EDITOR: It is amazing that only five years ago while Hon Stephenson King was Prime Minister of St.Lucia, he …
St. Lucia’s Economy
I recently read a report which suggested that Antigua has the fastest growing economy in the Caribbean. It was based …
Constitutional Reform – Is Saint Lucia’s Birth Certificate Flawed?
THIS week I had originally planned to write about the transformational and developmental ideas of one of my favourite macro-economists. …
Avoiding Crucial Issues … And Whispering
THE lure of money nowadays pulls hard and pushes towards crime all at once. It’s a growing phenomenon whose deeper …
Remunerated Imposters
THE EDITOR: It is ever so amusing to listen to the paid stooges of certain political parties making their various …
Rufus Bousquet: My Outstanding Question
I HAD to decide between writing about the late payment (or is that the non-payment) due to calypsonians after the …
The Constitutional Change Process: What’s in it for Ma Joe and Mr BIo?
THE day before it happened, Laurent Jn Pierre called my talk show on WVENT to comment, in part, on the …
Privatization and Competition – We’re Being Driven Down The Wrong Road — PART FOUR
IN the first three parts of this discussion we looked at the planned introduction of competition to LUCELEC, the proposals …
Political Fraud On ‘Open Mike’
ON a recent episode of Open Mike on DBS television, many St. Lucians were most shocked at some of the …
Over-regulation Of Banking
FOR many years, we in the Eastern Caribbean have boasted of a relatively strong and stable financial system as one …
Who’ll Commission The Commission’s Reforms
I DON’T really believe (like some already do) that the Report of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) was intended to …
CARICOM: A Collective Bargaining Unit For Rights
(The writer is an Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University and …
Privatization And Competition – We’re Being Driven Down The Wrong Road — PART THREE
THIS is the third of a four part discussion, with Parts 1 and 2 having considered the planned introduction of …
Were the Startled MPs Shooting The Messenger?
By Alexis B. Montgomery The shock value stemming from the recommendations communicated by the citizenry of Saint Lucia through the …
The Futility of Obsession
THE EDITOR AS a St. Lucian I listened to the constant attacks on Allen Chastanet by the Castries Central MP …
Ideas, Energy, Vision, Hope
DARNLEY Norville, a dear departed friend, once acted as General Secretary of the United Workers Party and became a close …
Can Rowley Win?
IN 1969 as a young seven year old I was introduced to politics. My uncle who lived in Trinidad was …