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Let the people speak!
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September 6, 2011
A quite amazing event took place in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on August 29 and 30. Two hundred representatives on non-governmental organisations (NG...
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Libya: A rough road ahead
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August 30, 2011
For those governments that had been courting Muammar Gaddafi for the money that he handed out to spread his influence around the world, his fall from ...
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The Commonwealth: making it work for people
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August 23, 2011
Following a year of work, including reviewing over 300 written submissions, the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG) has completed its report and ...
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England’s Riots: A line has been crossed
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August 16, 2011
The riots in London, which spread to other cities in England in a copy-cat pattern, were unlike any that had been seen before, and when normalcy is re...
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Wanted: A leader for the ACP
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August 9, 2011
The 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries should use the strength of their combined number and access to their natural resources to demand...
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Fares flying low over REDjet fears?
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July 26, 2011
The appearance of the low-cost carrier, REDjet, in the relations between the countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), has tos...
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The world’s newest nation: A baptism of hell
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July 12, 2011
South Sudan became the world’s newest independent nation on July 9. Within days it is expected to be the 193rd member of the United Nations. Very fe...
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No Caribbean ‘society’
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June 14, 2011
At their retreat in Guyana on May 21 and 22, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) Heads of Government are reported to have noted that the p...
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Guyana: Recovering its ‘lost’ years
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May 31, 2011
May 26th marked 45 years since Guyana became independent. During that time other countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and the Maldives, that had bee...
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A non-European Head of the IMF unlikely
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May 24, 2011
Despite calls for the next managing-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to come from a developing country, it is most unlikely to happen...
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China’s presence in Dominica
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May 6, 2011
The Caribbean island of Dominica is fast becoming a living example of the way that China has strengthened its influence by moving into countries that ...
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Obama: Second term, tough battle
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April 12, 2011
Barack Obama has launched his campaign for re-election to the Presidency of the United States in 2012. In launching his campaign so early, Obama plans...
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Libya: By what right?
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April 5, 2011
There has been a great debate over the military action in Libya by several Western governments, supported by some Arab governments. The central questi...
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Japan’s tragedy: Caribbean consequences
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March 22, 2011
The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan will have mixed effects on the Caribbean. Even as the region – like the rest of the world – looks ...
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El Dorado may be in sight at last
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February 22, 2011
Since the late 1970s and until recently, the economy of Guyana has been the sick man of the Caribbean, falling second only to Haiti as the poorest cou...
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CARICOM: It’s leadership that’s needed
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February 15, 2011
There should be no doubt that the people of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are well aware that failure of the regional integration project to contr...
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Privately-owned media have responsibility too
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February 8, 2011
If the closure of the BBC’s Caribbean service leaves a vacuum for a daily pan-Caribbean radio news service, it is the fault of the Caribbean news me...
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Lesson from Malaysia
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February 1, 2011
I am writing this commentary in the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the Capital of Malaysia. To describe Malaysia as a vibrant, energetic country would be an...
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On airlines, tourism and Caribbean integration
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January 25, 2011
Toward the end of last year, as a row raged between the Board of Directors of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL), owned by the government of Trinidad and To...
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Going with Golding
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January 18, 2011
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding says it is “an absurdity” that the Jamaica Constitution bars born-Jamaicans from being elected to Parliam...
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CARICOM or CARI-GONE?
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January 11, 2011
The New Year started with a great deal of frustration being publicly expressed over the Caribbean regional integration project which, this year, will ...
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2011: Time to make up your mind
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January 4, 2011
At the end of the first decade of the 21st Century, I wrote with a profound sense of disappointment that it was a “lost decade” for the Caribbean ...
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Waiting to hear from Trinidad PM on Air Jamaica
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December 30, 2010
As the sun began to set on the closing days of 2010, Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL), the airline owned by the government of Trinidad and Tobago, has bee...
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Chinese take-away?
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November 23, 2010
Problems have emerged in the Bahamas over the number of Chinese workers on a project funded in part by the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank of the People’...
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Stop discrimination against Blacks, Gays
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November 16, 2010
Michael Kirby, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, drew a recent report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to my at...
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Heads and no Crowns: The Caribbean in a storm
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November 9, 2010
Not for the first time in the history of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), Heads of Government are conveying mixed signals to the p...
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Integrate, compete or perish
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October 26, 2010
At a recent Forum held by the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) at the Guildhall in the City of London, the huge competition that the Caribbean face...
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India proves itself despite prejudices
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October 12, 2010
Enforced bed rest occasioned by surgery for an inguinal hernia provided me the rare opportunity to watch four continuous days of the BBC’s coverage ...
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Who is David Martin?
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October 5, 2010
Not many people in the Caribbean would know the name David Martin, but it is one that will become well known when Parliamentarians from the European U...
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Stop carping: Let the Commonwealth Games begin
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September 28, 2010
As I write this commentary, the media of the big Commonwealth countries are lambasting India over the preparations for the Commonwealth Games due to s...