World Press Freedom Day 2023 has come and gone — and Caribbean journalists and journalism continue to face the same …
How Free is The World Press Today? Part 2
Objective journalism threatened by fake content and false media platforms
Media freedom in the Americas, from Canada in the North to Argentina in the South, with the Caribbean in between, …
World Press Freedom Day 2023 — How Free is The World Press Today?
Veteran journalists have grown tired over the past quarter-century, with the way annual international observance and celebration of journalists and …
Until the Fat Lady Sings for You, Keep Hope Alive!
There are times in life when you think you have reached the end of your rope. You may have gracefully …
The 2023-2024 Budget: No One Left Behind
THE 2023-2024 Budget Presented by Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre on Tuesday, 25th April, 2023, is laden with assistance …
Fear remains greater than fear itself
A wide section of St Lucians is firmly of the opinion that the entire SLP parliamentarians fear the opposition leader …
Legacies, Links and Lessons Live Long!
All international events leave lasting legacies and the 1886 Haymarket Strike in Chicago that saw deaths of striking workers, is …
What future, Venezuela?
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also …
Saint Lucia a Gangsters Paradise? Part 7 – Budgeting for Crime!
Once upon a time, annual government budgetary allocations for Home Affairs would-have-been mainly for better equipment, training and administrative costs …
Have we forgotten that charity begins at home?
I often hear about growing or producing for the export market. I know that traditionally it has always been about …
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Having read the scathing attack by Judge Wit at the latest crime symposium at Port of Spain regarding the role …
St. Lucia Tourism Awards – The Gimies: Government Rewards Outstanding Performers
THE Government of St. Lucia, through the Ministry of Tourism, has designed and is ready to implement a Tourism Awards …
Caribbean A Gangsters Paradise? Part 6: How to Measure Crime?
With deaths reported daily and no end in near sight to the deadly results of gunplay leaving new families mourning, …
Growing-up with Sandals!
Memories can be fruitful and tasty. Growing-up dangerously, walking the La Toc, Castries coastline, with Hospital Road friends, on Sundays, …
Money is essential, but education is the key to success!
On my morning programme on HITZ FM earlier this week, I said that our intellectuals and technocrats are failing us. …
Banannegate takes center stage
It has been said that St Lucians hardly err at the polls, but it is said they also acknowledge quite …
Taiwan – St. Lucia Friendship: A Beacon of Light and Hope (Part Three)
THERE is no doubt, that the friendship between the government and people of Taiwan and the government and people of …
30 Honeymoons Later…
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is very much like a marriage: Companies are attracted by or wooed to an investment destination …
The Caribbean A Gangsters Paradise? Part 4: The Harder They Come…
Love for guns and gangs has been a part of Caribbean culture from colonial times when the British West Indies …
CRIME and the Family
At this time Saint Lucia is virtually inundated with criminal activity of a felonious and heinous type. The incidence of …