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OAS compromised by its Secretary-General
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May 23, 2017
The Organization of American States (OAS) has lost credibility as a multilateral institution capable of contributing to a resolution of the growing co...
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Globalization: disadvantaged small states
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May 9, 2017
Globalization was originally a construct of industrialized nations whose economic activity had developed sufficiently to withstand competition within ...
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Women as politiical leaders- not a gender issue
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April 25, 2017
Modern history is showered with women as political leaders and Heads of Government. When women first emerged in these roles, it was regarded as ‘bre...
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OAS dysfunctionality requires Charter review
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April 4, 2017
On March 28, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) experienced a public spectacle of disarray that, in 36 years of diplom...
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Commonwealth Free Trade: a British straw man?
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March 28, 2017
A Commonwealth Free Trade Area (FTA) would go down in India ‘like a lead balloon’. That’s the opinion of Indian Member of Parliament, Shashi Tha...
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Political leadership in the Caribbean
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February 7, 2017
The remarks in this commentary were spoken in a television interview in Grenada on the day that Fidel Ruz Castro, the former president of Cuba, died. ...
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President Trump’s policies and the Caribbean
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January 31, 2017
The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is systematically implementing the pledges he made during the presidential election campa...
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Passports: sale or saviour?
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January 10, 2017
On January 1st, “60 minutes”, an investigative programme aired by the US television company, CBS Corporation, ran a segment on “Citizenship by I...
Outraged for black womanhood
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Outraged for black womanhood
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December 20, 2016
After a lifetime in Caribbean and international politics, I thought the time had long since passed when I could be outraged by any event. But I was ou...
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The dignity of the Obamas
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November 29, 2016
As Barack Obama’s Presidency of the United States of America enters its final weeks, there are tens of millions of people in America and across the ...
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Raise up Haiti from its knees
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October 11, 2016
Haiti was due to have elections on October 9 to choose a new president. Even before Hurricane Matthew blasted the country on October 4 with Category F...
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IMF-World Bank meetings: a rare opportunity
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September 27, 2016
The October meetings this year of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC present a rare opportunity for Caribb...
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The US and the EU in harmful tax competition
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September 13, 2016
Over the last few weeks, a trans-Atlantic war of words has been going on between the US Treasury and the European Union Commission (EC) over what amou...
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Trump’s Mississippi miscalculation
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August 30, 2016
Five years ago, on June 26, 2011, a 47-year-old man, Craig Anderson, was on his way to celebrate his birthday when he was attacked and murdered by 10 ...
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Where has fight in developing countries gone?
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August 16, 2016
The ease with which developed countries appoint heads of international and multi-national organizations (sometimes in the guise of an election) is not...
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IMF: Light up its darker crannies
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August 9, 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has tormented small Caribbean economies for five decades with austerity measures and fierce conditionalit...
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Haiti: time is running out
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July 19, 2016
Luis Almagro, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American states (OAS), has told political stakeholders in Haiti, including the interim gove...
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Let the voices of the Haitian people be heard
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June 14, 2016
"International interests in Haiti, in addition to checking off an ‘elections done’ box, are largely defined by controlling emigration, maintaining...
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Haiti: No Moving out and moving on
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June 7, 2016
(The Writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. The views expressed are his own) There...
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New energy needed in the Caribbean
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May 10, 2016
The transformation of the energy sector in Caribbean countries is the key to improving the economies of all of them. Sustainably cheaper energy suppli...
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Good sense on drugs absent at UN
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April 26, 2016
For a brief moment it appeared that good sense would prevail and the international community would ditch the failed ‘war on drugs’ policy. But, al...
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No quick fix in Haiti
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April 19, 2016
Peace and development will be endangered in Haiti if the United States and other nations insist that the interim government holds the second round of ...
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The lessons of Panama and its papers
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April 12, 2016
The names of persons implicated in the leak of the so-called "Panama papers” on April 3 reads like a who’s who of the politically powerful in many...
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Would the real tax havens please stand
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March 1, 2016
"It is tantamount to an economic blockade.” That’s how Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, described the current withdrawal fro...
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Helping Haiti help itself
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February 23, 2016
HAITI HAS made a firm and important first step in taking responsibility for its affairs after decades of external interference. An argument, reached o...
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De-risking or destruction? Neither is fair
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February 2, 2016
"If there were any scheme designed to destroy the economies of several countries without a military war, then this is such a scheme. It is erroneous; ...
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The OAS ship has to be righted
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January 26, 2016
It is little known outside of the Organization of American States (OAS) and even among its member Governments that it has been in a financial crisis f...
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Obama standing tall and respected
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January 19, 2016
(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Universi...
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New Year: New resolution or same old illusion?
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January 5, 2016
The prospects of economic growth and social development for the English-speaking Caribbean region in 2016 are not bright. While there may be improveme...
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A passport to save the economy
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December 29, 2015
Several countries in the Caribbean now operate a Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) under which high-worth foreigners can obtain citizenship an...