Once upon a time, annual government budgetary allocations for Home Affairs would-have-been mainly for better equipment, training and administrative costs …
Saint Lucia a Gangsters Paradise? Part 7 – Budgeting for Crime!
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 …
Can Saint Lucia Shed its Woes?
There is no doubt that the staggering surge in criminal warfare is indeed scary for many reasons. Firstly, from a …
The Youth Entrepreneur Programme: Embracing, Enhancing and Empowering the Young People of St. Lucia
THE Youth Entrepreneur programme is now a reality in St. Lucia. The ingenious programme is the brainchild of the parliamentary …
We cannot remain detached from world affairs
Sometimes when I see the lifestyles that some people choose and their attitude, it makes me wonder if we, as …
Caribbean, A Gangsters Paradise — Part 3: Don Gorgon!
In ‘The Godfather’ that role went to Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) and Al Pacino played the role as Tony …
Vacancy: Leadership to Unite the Global South
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow …
Caribbean Gangsters Paradise Part 2: Illegal gun trade shooting-up regional gang violence
During the Easter weekend, I cautiously welcomed the repeated news reports of apparent return to normalcy in Saint Lucia after …
Mature response from Guyana at ICJ victory over Venezuela
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also …
The fallout of poor decisions
The display of local and regional security officers embarking on a massive search at various hotspots (the Vieux Fort area …