COMMENTARY: PNM not pursuing meaningful civil litigation

By: Capil Bissoon March 31, 2023 The PNM would want you to believe that in the 43 years they have been in Govt since Independence in 1962, they have been…

COMMENTARY: Kangaloo and Annisette-George have destroyed Trinidadian Parliamentary democracy

By: Capil Bissoon March 28, 2023 Both Kangaloo and Annisette-George have literally destroyed our Parliamentary democracy under the guise of political neutrality, behaving as though Parliament is an extension of…

COMMENTARY: Development crisis threatens Small States

By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 24, 2023 “The world is facing a crisis of development.”  Those are the first words of a paper from officials of the World Bank Group…

COMMENTARY: Can political parties agree a social contract for national  progress?

By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 17, 2023 Authoritative international bodies – among them, the respected Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) – have concluded that “democracy is under both…

HIS MAJESTY THE KING’S COMMONWEALTH DAY MESSAGE

By: H.M King Charles March 17, 2023   Email your opinions, letters and commentaries to: letters@caribmagplus.com

COMMENTARY: Commercial Paper – a useful financing mechanism 

By: Wayne Dass March 10, 2023 Commercial Paper (CP) is short-term debt issued by corporates that is unsecured and used to finance short-term liabilities including inventory and payables. The original…

COMMENTARY: MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

By: Carla Barnett March 10, 2023 On 8 March 2023, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), a special observance that…

COMMENTARY: How to stop the increasingly authoritarian slide in Latin America

By: Mark L. Schneider March 7, 2023 Hard not to throw up one’s hands and bemoan the drift to authoritarianism that one sees in country after country in the Western…

COMMENTARY: A third way for global peace

By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 3, 2023 If developing countries, especially the small and vulnerable states, expected meaningful attention by the G20 to the myriad economic and financial challenges that…

COMMENTARY: The war on Ukraine is now a global war

By: Sir Ronald Sanders February 24, 2023 The people of Ukraine are the principal victims of the unjustified and unprovoked war, launched against them by Russia on February 24, 2022.…

COMMENTARY: Taking forward the Africa – Caribbean Trade and Investment Partnership

By: Deodat Maharaj February 17, 2023 It is good to see movement to deepen the trade and investment partnership between Africa and the Caribbean. Indeed, just recently, the Africa Export…

COMMENTARY: End sexual violence against women in the interest of mankind

By: Sir Ronald Sanders February 17, 2023 Rape, and other forms of sexual violence against women in war and conflict, represent one of the great silences and suppressed issues in…