Over the past eight years, I have been writing a weekly column for the Business Authority—an offshoot of the Barbados …
Borrowing And Lending Behaviour In The OECS
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 …
Sniggering At China In No One’s Interest
(THE writer is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College, University of …
Meeting The Threats of Climate Change
By Dymphna van der Lans , CEO of the Clinton Climate Initiative, where she oversees climate and energy related programmes …
Same Sex And Death Penalty
WANT to know why I don’t think we’re about to see same-sex marriages in any church here? Here’s why… The …
Live And Let Live
YOU know that feeling when you have a strong opinion about something but you’re worried about speaking your mind because …
LPM Presses Gov’t on Economic Citizenship
OUR government’s desire to sell thousands of Saint Lucian passports abroad in exchange for huge sums of cash through the …
Same-sex Marriage And The Death Penalty
THE CARICOM Summit is now history. The leaders have returned home and its back to normal, until things change again. …
Wannabe Lady Candidate: Rosa Parks or a Joan of Arc?
AS someone who has defied the political odds all my life, I like it when others do likewise. I particularly …