COMMENTARY: Not a moment to waste: Small island states must defend themselves 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  November 25, 2022 Call me a cynic, but years of participation in negotiations between developed and developing countries have schooled me to be cautious about grand…

COMMENTARY: On the road to a sustainable Amazon

By Mario Lubetkin November 22, 2022 Over the past few years, the scientific world has recognized that the Amazon faces unprecedented survival challenges and may soon reach a tipping point…

COMMENTARY: Fearless Fight for Climate Fairness 

November 18, 2022 By Sir Ronald Sanders  Showing all the frankness that he demonstrates in his domestic politics, Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, marched fearlessly like Daniel in…

COMMENTARY: America’s Democracy not trumped in mid-term elections  

By Sir Ronald Sanders  November 11, 2022 In my commentary last week entitled, US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the World, I pointed out that no less a person than Joseph…

COMMENTARY: US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the world 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  November 4, 2022 Democracy is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy.  That is the judgement of no less…

COMMENTARY: The Best Course For Haiti

By: Guerton Auguste October 25, 2022 A True Political Transition – Not An Aristide Third Act Recently there was a rumor circulating in Haiti and on social media that Aristide…

COMMENTARY: No trust in Truss:  General elections should be called 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  October 21, 2022 The present Conservative party in Britain has now established a remarkable list of records; none of them good.  Liz Truss, who has now…

COMMENTARY: Energy transition and climate resilience: catalysts for growth and inclusion

By: Mahmoud Mohieldin and Mario Cimoli October 18, 2022 The intensifying adverse impacts of climate change, the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and global food and energy security challenges…

COMMENTARY: Haiti does not have adequate security forces to combat gangs!

By: Jude Elie October 18, 2022 Dear fellow Haitians, For months now, powerless, we have been living in indignity, because our women and children are murdered and raped in Martissant,…

COMMENTARY: Support for Juan Guaidó has dwindled 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  October 14, 2022 At the height of Donald Trump’s presidency of the United States (U.S.) when, on January 23, 2019, he anointed Juan Guaidó as the…

COMMENTARY: The OAS is broke and broken 

By: Sir Ronald Sanders October 7, 2022 As we meet at this 52nd Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States, the OAS is financially broke.  We…

COMMENTARY: That’s enough! Just stop it now!

By: Jude Elie October 4, 2022 Stop this masquerade! What we need is an urgent agreement without preconditions. Haiti is dying. Where have all these politicians gone who proclaim blind…