It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas …
Forget Begging Rich Nations: Caribbean Countries Should Act to Save Themselves
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 …
The Many Joys of Christmas
In keeping with the Christmas Season, I share this excerpt from my book “Grass Street and Later Memories.” It’s a …
Crime and Incompetence – The Philip J Pierre Administration’s Legacy
The people of St. Lucia are suffering under the weight of a corrupt and inept government, led by the bungling …
Ode to Sylvestre Philip, the Open School Teacher!
I didn’t often meet Sylvestre Philip, but the last time we met (outside the Castries provisions market) I sensed he …
Let the asylum seekers go: a first step for Venezuela to rebuild relations in the Americas
The government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has steadfast support from many friends in the Caribbean and other parts of …
The Miracle of Notre Dame
On 15 April 2019, fire engulfed the roof of Notre Dame de Paris, a medieval, Catholic Cathedral in Paris, France. …
Will executors butcher the goose that lays Sandals’ golden eggs?
I read, with continuing interest, the latest media reports trying to explain the legalese in leaked documents about the latest …
Another National Holiday for Nothing
I continue repeating my annual grouse about how an entire nation simply continues to spin in a giddy fantasy of …
The Erosion of Trust: Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre’s Legacy of Corruption
In the 2021 election campaign, Philip J. Pierre, then leader of the opposition, made a solemn promise to the people …
GLOBAL VIBES IN 2025
As Christmas and 2025 Celebrations approach, we’re naturally wondering what’ll happen at home and across the world next year. As …