COMMENTARY: Unlocking Finance – A Prerequisite for Caribbean Transformation

By: Deodat Maharaj June 22, 2021 As we in the Caribbean seek to fast-track recovery and build a post COVID-19 world where business plays a leadership role in creating much…

COMMENTARY: Democracy too precious in CARICOM not to defend it abroad

By: Sir Ronald Sanders June 18, 2021 More commonality was shown by CARICOM countries in a vote on Tuesday June 15 at the Organization of American States (OAS) than has…

COMMENTARY: UNIMPLEMENTABLE CHANCELLOR’S REPORT: CAPTAIN BECKLES AND THE “BERMUDEZ TRIANGLE”

By: Anthony Gafoor June 15, 2021 The heated media debates on the UWI Chancellor’s Governance Report and its alleged connections to the delay in the renewal of the Vice-Chancellor have…

COMMENTARY: Why 84 countries are borrowing from the IMF

By Sir Ronald Sanders June 4, 2021 In the wake of the economic damage done by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in every continent of the world have…

COMMENTARY: Get illegal migrants vaccinated

By Sir Ronald Sanders May 28, 2021 Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country.  Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing…

COMMENTARY: Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19

By: Sir Ronald Sanders May 21, 2021 Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the COVID-19 pandemic.    In 2019, even before the novel…

COMENTARY: Gender-based violence: an overlooked risk in development projects

By: María Amelia Viteri May 21, 2021 With the urge that building gender equality may convey, the social safeguard policies of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) encompass concrete actions to…

COMMENTARY: Clean and Green – The New Economy Set to Transform the Caribbean

By: Deodat Maharaj May 18, 2021 Seismic shifts are taking place in the global economic architecture as countries accelerate efforts to transition clean and green economies. In 2015, at the…

COMMENTARY: Vaccinate or suffocate – the stark choice

By Sir Ronald Sanders May 14, 2021 Sections of the population in many of the 14 independent CARICOM countries are in grave danger of undermining their own health and economic…

COMMENTARY: NAVIGATING THE UWI GALAXY: RETURN OF THE JEDI, SIR HILARY BECKLES

By: Anthony Gafoor May 11, 2021 Despite pervasive comments of covert, threatening actions from a traitorous Darth Vader, on Friday, April 30, 2021, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West…

COMMENTARY: Opinions from Trinidad on the removal of SORT police head Mark Hernandez

By Eve George May 7, 2021 On January 29, 2021 a young woman and Judicial clerk Andrea Bharatt 23 disappeared after taking a cab to home. On February 4 at…

COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS

By Sir Ronald Sanders May 7, 2021 Strong disagreement may be brewing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on how to respond to the ongoing, grave political and constitutional…