Venezuela yesterday celebrated the start of President Nicolas Maduroâs third consecutive term and the 28th election victory of the ruling …
Venezuela 2025: A Celebration That Was and An Inauguration That Wasnât!
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. Luciaâs Housing Sector
The role of a Housing Minister is crucial in shaping a nationâs 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 worldâs richest nations, especially those responsible for the lionâs 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 âimmigrantsâ as 2025 begins, youâd 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 donât 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 âProgress on Steroidsâ under Pierre Administration
A fellow regional political observer-also a colleague journalist, friend, and Comrade-responding to regional reports on the Saint Lucia Prime Ministerâs …
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 âGrass Street and Later Memories.â Itâs a …
Crime and Incompetence – The Philip J Pierre Administrationâs 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 didnât 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 NicolĂĄs 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. …