IT was incredible to hear the Prime Minister describe the United Workers Party team as “desperate unemployables”. What a statement …
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
Saint Lucia’s Developmental Progress has Evolved by Leaps and Short Bursts
WITH what measure does a country evaluate its developmental progress? Albeit, developmental progress comes in various forms and wide dimensions …
Will Essequibo be the Caribbean’s Nagorno Karabakh?
In the wake of last Sunday’s (December 3 ) International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the Guyana-Venezuela dispute over …
Educational Reform: How to Change the Culture of Education (Part 3)
I have already defined culture as a way of life of a group of people, an institution, a community; the …
Climate Change Realities at COP28: A Critical Assessment
THE upcoming Climate Change meeting in Dubai – COP28 – is enveloped in hype, yet expectations of transformational change are …
Sunburnt on a Deserted Island of Irrelevancy!
NOT all his party’s supporters will admit publicly or privately, but more today than ever will tell you that Allen …
Racing to be First to Get Back to Square One!
A good friend always tells me not to judge others by my standards, but, I’m afraid, not accepting wrong from …
Conference Diplomacy and the Law of Diminishing Returns
INTRODUCTION Economists would be familiar with “The Law of Diminishing Returns” which holds that as investment in an area increases, …
Stumped for Words – By Sandals!
I was invited by Sandals Resorts International (SRI) last Sunday to an end-of-year appreciation event organized for the local media’s …
Samoa Disagreement
Backdrop During my sojourn through the labyrinth of multilateralism, I had a healthy disdain for powerful, wealthy countries and international …
Breaking the OECD hold on global tax governance
“THE Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is nothing less than a Club of the world’s wealthiest countries which …
The Dollar-and-Sense Difference Between Breadfruit and Maple Leaves
I like Warren Buffet, who’s seen as having worked so-hard to make so-much-money so-easily, that he’s considered the go-to and …
Putting Our Children First
The Rationale FOR some time now, I’ve been searching for a mantra of sorts around which we might coalesce as …
The Open School on: How to Help Students Reach Mastery in Learning
WELCOME students to another lesson in the Open School for the second term for the academic or school year 2023 …
We’re too jammed between First and Third World mentalities
IT matters not what happens to the rest of the world, when it comes to development each country seeks to …
Letter to the Editor
DEAR EDITOR, It is now common knowledge that the Government of St. Lucia is in the advanced stage of finalizing …
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? 13,300 dead on International Men’s and Children’s Days in Gaza
In six weeks (42 days), human beings were killed like flies and wiped-off the face of the earth by-the-minute in …
Support Taiwan’s Participation in INTERPOL as an Observer
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people lost their jobs because of the lockdowns and have been desperately …
Guatemala: Lessons in the Fight for Democratic Integrity
It was a prophesy foretold – the eruption of violence in the face of attempts to disqualify from office a …
Palestinians Die by Thousands while World Leaders Fiddle on the Roof!
While the world talks, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is intensifying, broadening and deepening its bombardment of Gaza by day …