No one should be in doubt: the global energy balance is changing rapidly with profound political and economic consequences for the way …
Commonwealth Political Insights
An IMF lead in Jamaica: Will other Caribbean countries follow?
Jamaica’s harsh experience with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to get a new 0 million loan, signals equally harsh conditions for many …
Shock as DLP win in Barbados general election proves polls wrong
The people of Barbados kept their tradition and provided the current party with a second consecutive term in power following a tight …
Letter to the Government of St Lucia
“As for a man wandering from the way of insight, he will rest in the very congregation of those impotent in death” …
Eyeing the case before the Caribbean Court of Justice
The judgment in a case now proceeding through the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) could prove to be a landmark in the …
A Virgin Islands tale: Robin Hood
WELL SIR! The story is on the highways and byways: JUICY GOSSIP rising out of WHOREHOUSES, and OUTHOUSES; STRIP JOINTS and RUM …
Obama Second Time Around: The Significance
The re-confirmation of a black man as President of the world’s most powerful nation is a significant milestone in the progress of …
The people of Fiji matter: who is standing up for them?
By any objective measure of the Commonwealth’s own criteria, Fiji should by now be expelled from the Commonwealth of Nations. Since September …
Gun Control! Urgently needed in the Caribbean
In the Caribbean in the 70s and 80s an argument in the schoolyard was a big story. Sometimes those arguments turned to …
Tales of the Virgin Islands: Helen of Troy, Robert Mugabe…a political satire
Now your Wannabe Admiral Horatio Nelson is dumbstruck. The anger of a cross section of the Virgin Islands public appears to have …