EDITORIAL: Merry Christmas. We are off until January 5

December 15, 2023 We want to wish our readers a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. This year has zoomed by very quickly. Usually, we do a review,…

EDITORIAL: The pathway to peace, take it.

December 12, 2023 The pathway to peace for Guyana and Venezuela leads through the St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thank God there can be a neutral place where the leaders…

EDITORIAL: Don’t be mean this Christmas season

December 8, 2023 After a tragedy, or severe trauma, and after we have settled back to normal, we as human beings tend to forget the problems we all shared as…

EDITORIAL: Venezuela won’t annex Guyana

December 5, 2023 President Nicolas Maduro would be crazy to invade Guyana’s Essequibo region. He won’t do it. Think about it, he does not need a referendum to act unilaterally.…

EDITORIAL: We are on the final lap of 2023.

December 1, 2023 We are in the final lap of this year of our Lord, 2023. We have to finish it out in peace and happiness. We deserve it, especially…

EDITORIAL: The COP28 run up is underwhelming.

November 28, 2023 The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, better known as COP28 is underwhelming thus far. There is no run…

EDITORIAL: The sky is the limit for Caribbean young people

November 24, 2023 I am encouraged when I see the young people of our fair region gather together for wholesome dialogue and activity to strengthen our respective little rocks and…

EDITORIAL: Has the gun problem in the Caribbean gone too far?

November 21, 2023 I often wonder if we have allowed the trafficking of illegal firearms to go on for too long, where those responsible for trafficking guns to the Caribbean…

EDITORIAL: Health is wealth!

November 17, 2023 The region is literally starving to death, so says the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). We cannot afford food, let alone quality and nutritious food. So how…

EDITORIAL: Monetary policy in the Caribbean is ineffective on inflation!

November 14, 2023 The Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago said what almost every economist worth his sale knew, is that the inflationary pressure in the Caribbean…

EDITORIAL: We can never have open borders.

November 10, 2023 Reading the latest report from the Inter-American Development Bank on what they call the positive impact that migration would have on urbanisation, got me to thinking of…

EDITORIAL: The digital revolution must be completed

November 8, 2023 There is something disturbing me when I read the ECLAC report that said that the Caribbean is lagging behind everyone else on going digital and moving away…