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…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Reflecting on the Past: Celebrating Juneteenth
By: Wayne Campbell June 25, 2021 “Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory or an acceptance of the way things are. It’s a celebration of progress. It’s an affirmation…
COMMENTARY: Joint endeavour or collective surrender: resisting global tax
By Sir Ronald Sanders June 25, 2021 The proposal by the U.S. government to establish a global minimum corporate tax is not a remote matter from the lives of people…
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…