By: Carla Barnett January 25, 2022 I welcome the invitation to participate in this timely and important meeting on Haiti, a Member State of our Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Let me…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Democracy in Barbados fully entrusted to new Mia Mottley government
January 21, 2022 By Sir Ronald Sanders Rejecting the accusations of bullying and despotism that were levelled at Mia Mottley, the overwhelming majority of the electorate of Barbados returned her…
COMMENTARY: The Global Minimum Tax – Another Vulnerability Vector And Door For Discrimination Against Small States
Marla Dukaharan January 21, 2022 “Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
COMMENTARY: Commonwealth Caribbean countries – all Republics by 2030?
By Sir Ronald Sanders January 14, 2022 By 2030, it is more than likely that the eight independent Commonwealth countries which are still monarchical states, with Queen Elizabeth II as…
COMMENTARY: Governments must act urgently to end embarrassing UWI spectacle
By: Sir Ronald Sanders January 7, 2022 No individuals are greater or more valuable than Institutions. The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is the longest thriving and most…
COMMENTARY: Desmond Tutu: A Life of Servanthood Leadership
By: Wayne Campbell January 7, 2022 “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the…
COMMENTARY: Reform the OAS or oversee its irrelevance
By: Sir Ronald Sanders December 17, 2021 Our world exists today in troubled circumstances, governed by outmoded charters and laws that are no longer fit for purpose and do not…
COMMENTARY: ‘Drowning in promises’ after COP26
By: David Jessop December 14, 2021 In a powerful speech at last month’s COP26 climate summit, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley seized the day. In just eight minutes, she captured…
COMMENTARY: Democracy Summit missed an essential ingredient
By Sir Ronald Sanders December 10, 2021 US President Joe Biden declared at the opening of a “Summit on Democracy”, which he convened on December 9, that “democracy needs champions”. …
COMMENTARY: Wake up and smell the Chow Mein
By Sir Ronald Sanders December 3, 2021 A television interviewer asked me if I thought Caribbean countries, and other developing territories, would benefit from the ‘war for influence’ that the…
COMMENTARY: New trade partnership with UK set to increase jobs and opportunity both sides of Atlantic
By: Deodat Maharaj November 30, 2021 Arguably, we have never seen a stronger case made for global leaders to invest in our Region’s future survival than that put forward by…
COMMENTARY: Barbados’ Republican status is not a yen for pieces of silver
By Sir Ronald Sanders November 26, 2021 Among the most nonsensical statements uttered by a British Parliamentarian and repeated in the British newspaper, The Sunday Times, is that Barbados will…