COMMENTARY: COP-27 failing before it begins 

By: Sir Ronald Sanders September 2, 2022 The most ominous sign of what the forthcoming COP-27 meeting on climate change portends for small states is that officials from a Group…

COMMENTARY: Oil Rich Guyana – Contrasts And Opportunities

By: Felicia J. Persaud September 2, 2022 So, what would you do, if one day to your surprise, you found a buried treasure worth many billions of dollars? What would…

COMMENTARY: Another ban on leaders attending international meetings? 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  August 26, 2022 Once again, politicians in the U.S. are entangling the internal politics of their country with U.S. obligations to the international community.  This time…

COMMENTARY: Haiti sinking deeper into catastrophe:  Who will save it? 

By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 19, 2022 Haiti has never been far from wide-scale human suffering, grave political instability, and grim economic underdevelopment.  But its circumstances today are worse than they…

COMMENTARY: OECS Director General calls for Youth to be at epicenter of our development in International Youth Day Address

By: Dr Didacus Jules August 16, 2022 Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Dr. Didacus Jules has called for the deliberate inclusion of young people in…

COMMENTARY: Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration?  Part 3 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  August 12, 2022 So far in this attempt to answer the question, “Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration”, it has been established that, after…

COMMENTARY: Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration?  Part 2 

By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 5, 2022 (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States.   He is also a Senior…

COMMENTARY: Strengthening Guyana’s Relationship With The United States

By: Wazim Mowla August 2, 2022 The United States is Guyana’s most important bilateral relationship. The United States remains a major power in the Western Hemisphere and holds significant influence…

COMMENTARY: Has CARICOM reached its limits of regional integration?  Part 1 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  July 29, 2022 I am indebted for the title of this commentary to the Honourable Bruce Golding, a former Prime Minister of Jamaica, who has been…

COMMENTARY: Europe and US gripped in lethal heatwave: Will this bring long delayed action on Climate Change? 

By Sir Ronald Sanders  July 22, 2022 Over the last few weeks, global warming has caused the deaths of thousands of people in Europe, and it has dislocated communities in…

COMMENTARY: Electing a woman leader  – a long and winding road

By Sir Ronald Sanders July 15, 2022 The fight for the post of leader of the ruling Conservative Party in Britain and for the Presidency of the United States is…

COMMENTARY: Safeguarding rights from authoritarian governments 

By: Sir Ronald Sanders July 8, 2022 The rights of persons everywhere in the world have to be protected from authoritarian governments that suffocate them.  In the English-speaking Caribbean countries  –…