June 25, 2020 This trend of wealthy foreign investors trying to bully small Caribbean and Central American countries has been around since the Independence of many of our countries. This…
Category: EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL: There really is no free lunch! (A response to whiners over CMP’s business model)
June 22, 2021 Not that we are taking an examination of regional economist Marla Dukharan’s analysis on the Trinidad and Tobago supplementary budget. No. We are more personal with this…
EDITORIAL: Chelsea Clinton says we are doing good with vaccines. Really?
Well, someone feels our respective governments are doing a fantastic job on vaccination plans in the Caribbean. The lovely, Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former president of the US, Bill…
EDITORIAL: Does the Caribbean have the most writers per capita in the world?
The amount of writers, poets, authors and story tellers this editor has either interviewed or has received submissions from is phenomenal. Words can’t express how shocked I am at the…
EDITORIAL: A few short notes this week.
I don’t have a particular focus this weekend, but just want to share a few short notes with you. The first is president Joe Biden said that the US government…
EDITORIAL: The US is dumping their AstraZeneca vaccines.
I guess the world has heard now. The US is dumping their stockpile of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines on the rest of the world. The same AZ vaccine that has shown to…
EDITORIAL: Citizenship by Investment is under reputational assault in the region.
Two major stories are developing involving the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme, the first is in Grenada where the consul general/ambassador for Grenada in Miami, Warren Newfield, resigned his post…
EDITORIAL: The Chinese are at it again, another virus!
In case you did not hear about it already, China has uncovered another deadly virus that can affect humans. This time it’s the H10N3. A 41-year-old man in China’s eastern…
EDITORIAL: Developing the cultural space is needed more than ever.
The talent, skills and heart of the Caribbean people is evident. It’s like the month of June is blossoming with talent and ideas and people of all walks of the…
EDITORIAL: Caribbean people are using the internet wholesomely.
I’m pleased as punch to see my Caribbean and Central American brothers and sisters using the internet and this COVID-19 downtime productively and wholesomely. I have come across literary conferences,…
EDITORIAL: Woe is businesses in the region!
God help all of the businesses in the Caribbean and Central American region. We have been reliant on tourism and foreign exchange for most of our existence if not all…
EDITORIAL: The COVID vaccine disparity is showing!
Up to this time, the UK has reopened their economy. People are now going to pubs and indoor restaurants. The US is slowly vaccinating millions of people and some states…