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Obama: The cold logic of mass graves
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October 1, 2013
US President Barack Obama’s 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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High time indeed to review marijuana policies
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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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What about the Syrian people? Do they count?
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September 17, 2013
The last month’s 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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The Commonwealth: in black and white
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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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China-Taiwan issue trumps Caribbean co-operation
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August 27, 2013
China may still be classified as a “developing” country because of its per capita income, but that is as far as the description is pertinent. In a...
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China-Caribbean relations: a new footing needed
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August 13, 2013
In China recently, one of the country’s leading academics told me that a former Chinese Ambassador to the Caribbean said that the region has “a tw...
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UWI: Performing against the odds
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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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Towards a new Venezuela-Caribbean relationship
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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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Re-thinking taxing tourism
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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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Chinese eggs waiting to be hatched
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June 11, 2013
From the government of China’s 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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The agony of Caribbean travel re-visited
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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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Britons’ shameful moment
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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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The case for compensating the Caribbean
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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 today’s value as compensation for the emancipat...
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Supine and silent: the Caribbean in a vortex
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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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President Obama: The man unveiled
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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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Planning beyond Hugo Chavez
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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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Commonwealth or Europe? Why a choice?
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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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Why ignore Cuba’s welcome mat?
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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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Two blows for whales
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December 11, 2012
The policy of the Japanese government to slaughter thousands of whales every year, in the name of “science”, suffered two major blows in recent we...
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Cliff – what cliff?
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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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Caribbean in greatest crisis since independence
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November 20, 2012
“Make 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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The other presidential election: no surprises
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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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Rum facing double whammy
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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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Is Obama or Romney better for the Caribbean?
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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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Aid: The golden taps being turned off
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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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Diplomatically cutting costs
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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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The hypocrisy of it all
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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...