Obama’s keen social conscience and background had encouraged widespread optimism in the Caribbean and in several other areas when he was first …
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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 …
The team will be led by Irfan Abdool Rahman, Electoral Commissioner of Mauritius Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma today announced that a Commonwealth …
A week or so ago, the Board of the Caribbean Hotels and Tourism Association (CHTA) passed unanimously a resolution calling on Caribbean …
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 …
P.M. Gonsalves presents 2013 Budget
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines – The Capital Budget for St. Vincent and the Grenadines is marginally less than the EC$182.92 …
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 …