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October 8, 2013
There will be a lot of rubbish in Washington over the next few days. And, that rubbish is not only the garbage that is steadily piling up in the natio...
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October 1, 2013
US President Barack Obamaâs speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 24 should rank as a rare breath of fresh air in a body...
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September 24, 2013
On September 17, the Bureau of the Heads of Government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) discussed the decriminalisation of marijuana and...
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September 17, 2013
The last monthâs chessboard politics about Syria and the use of chemical weapons have done nothing to stop the large-scale suffering of the mass of ...
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September 10, 2013
A visit to Guyana by Venezuelaâs President Nicolás Maduro Moros and a Joint Declaration issued by the two governments on August 31 represent a grea...
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September 3, 2013
Boris Johnson, the mayor of the British capital city, London, has joined in a chorus of voices in the Conservative Party that has been calling for Bri...
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August 27, 2013
China may still be classified as a âdevelopingâ country because of its per capita income, but that is as far as the description is pertinent. In a...
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August 20, 2013
There is a school of thought in China that the countryâs relations with Latin America and the Caribbean should be on a âholistic and integrated co...
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August 13, 2013
In China recently, one of the countryâs leading academics told me that a former Chinese Ambassador to the Caribbean said that the region has âa tw...
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July 23, 2013
A few days ago the BBC Television World Service interviewed one of the wealthiest persons in China. She will be 48 years old next month and her assets...
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July 16, 2013
Since 2005 when the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez introduced the Petro Caribe initiative, several Caribbean governments have enjoyed a vital...
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July 2, 2013
Every now and again, a book comes along that will be kept near to hand and will end up very dog-eared by constant use. Such a book is Ian McDonaldâs...
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June 25, 2013
Are governments in the Caribbean killing the goose that lays the golden egg? This question relates to the number of taxes that governments are applyin...
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June 18, 2013
The state of the Jamaican economy and the increasing hostility to trade with Trinidad and Tobago by Jamaican manufacturers are matters that should con...
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June 11, 2013
From the government of Chinaâs point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great s...
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June 4, 2013
Much media coverage was given to the signing on May 28 in Trinidad of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) by US Vice President Joseph Bi...
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May 28, 2013
This commentary is a much shortened version of a paper delivered at a public seminar at London University on May 20th on the Legacy of the British Emp...
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May 14, 2013
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now set to appoint a new Director-General. He is Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo, Brazilâs long-serving Ambassado...
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May 7, 2013
Concerns surrounding state-owned airlines in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries clearly exist amongst a wide crosssection of the Community. E...
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April 23, 2013
The lady was dead. Margaret Thatcher, who dominated British political life and the transformation of a sick economy to a vibrant partner in Europe, wa...
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April 16, 2013
In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 (US$17.8) billion in todayâs value as compensation for the emancipat...
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April 9, 2013
How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 smal...
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March 19, 2013
The most important reason for the selection of a country as the host-venue for a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is that it serves th...
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March 5, 2013
(On 26 February, Sir Ronald Sanders was invited to launch âIn the Ringâ, a Commonwealth Memoir written by Sir Donald McKinnon, former Secretary-Ge...
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February 12, 2013
The judgment in a case now proceeding through the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) could prove to be a landmark in the movement of West Indians throug...
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February 5, 2013
By any objective measure of the Commonwealthâs own criteria, Fiji should by now have been expelled from the Commonwealth of Nations. Since September...
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January 29, 2013
(The writer is a consultant, former Caribbean diplomat and Visiting Fellow, London University) The speech may have been directed to a domestic United ...
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January 22, 2013
It is time for the Commonwealth of Nations to suspend Sri Lanka from its councils.In doing so, the Commonwealth would restore confidence in its 2.1 bi...
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January 15, 2013
Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela, could not turn up on January 10 for his swearing-in ceremony as President for a fourth consecutive term...
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January 8, 2013
The New Year started with yet another welcome affirmation from the British Government of the importance of the 54-nation Commonwealth.Hugo Swire, who ...
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December 18, 2012
Cuba has long been an economic, trade and investment opportunity that has been neglected by the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. Thi...
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December 11, 2012
The policy of the Japanese government to slaughter thousands of whales every year, in the name of âscienceâ, suffered two major blows in recent we...
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December 4, 2012
It is not only the people of the United States that should be praying that their political leaders have enough sense not to push themselves off the so...
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November 27, 2012
Tue, Nov 27, 2012 In the words of the Pri...
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November 20, 2012
ââ¬ÅMake no mistake about it. Our region is in the throes of the greatest crisis since independence. The spectre of evolving into failed societies ...
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November 13, 2012
While the eyes of the world were focussed on the presidential elections in the United States, another significant election for the international commu...
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November 6, 2012
Earnings and employment generated by the rum industry in 14 CARICOM countries and the Dominican Republic (collectively CARIFORUM) are under siege and ...
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October 30, 2012
âThe Security Council took no responsibility for the situation in Rwanda and the growing number of lives lost, and its key members flatly denied the...
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October 23, 2012
Such is the continuing power of the United States that all over the world governments and organisations are concerned about what a US presidency of ei...
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October 16, 2012
Austerity budgets throughout Europe, and Government cuts on welfare spending, have caused many people to argue that aid allocations to foreign countri...
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October 9, 2012
Small states in the Caribbean would do well to follow the pattern of Britain and Canada in pooling and sharing diplomatic missions abroad. Caribbean c...
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October 2, 2012
September 27, 2012 marked the tenth anniversary of the beginning of negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union...
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September 25, 2012
It is hypocritical in the extreme. The US Trade Representative has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) claiming that the Peoples...
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The last thing that the Bagga Fish Fest Committee wants to do is shut down the event, but with the disturbing number of children who are present at Fi...
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May 9, 2025
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has brought attention to what has been described as “an urgent but often overlooked challenge of our time”...
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May 9, 2025
A Lodge Village mother of three, who is well known at several Massy Stores as a thief, may face up to two years in prison after she was caught again, ...
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May 9, 2025
A police officer, alleged to have aided and abetted a civilian to break traffic regulations, has been charged, and will appear in court on May 12,2025...
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May 9, 2025
A 45-year-old farmer of Park Hill, who pleaded guilty to a charge of handling stolen goods was fined, bonded, and ordered to make restitution when he ...
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