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September 21, 2010
The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its fifth public forum in Geneva over three days beginning September 15. It has become a kind of international...
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September 14, 2010
Only one Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country made the top 50 countries in the World Economic Forumâs âGlobal Competitiveness Report 2010-2011â...
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September 7, 2010
The writer is a member of the Eminent Persons Group established by Commonwealth Heads of Government to report by October 2011 on strengthening the Com...
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August 31, 2010
At a time of economic decline among the majority of countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and a recognition that the region is battling in an...
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August 24, 2010
The G20 should be the âT20â - trustees not just of the 20 rich countries that sit at their meetings but also of the 172 nations that are denied a ...
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August 17, 2010
The military leader of Fiji, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, recently said that he would like to cut his countryâs ties with neighbouring Australia and...
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August 10, 2010
The British government has recently launched an initiative to make its Ambassadors front-line persons in pushing British business abroad. There are le...
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August 3, 2010
Climate change is now undeniable according to a new study headed by the US National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration. It is already having a disa...
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July 27, 2010
(The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean Diplomat) âDonât Burn Our Bridges: The Case for Owning Airlinesâ is the title of a book authore...
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July 20, 2010
A fake Internet website caused a stir for at least 24 hours when it purported to be a Government of France website announcing that the government âi...
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July 13, 2010
Some leaders of countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) often suggest that the slow progress of regional integration is due t...
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June 29, 2010
Guyana and its Presidency Every present indicator strongly suggests that, at the end of next yearâs general elections in Guyana, the Presidency of t...
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June 22, 2010
The current President, 46-year-old Bharat Jagdeo, will finish his two-terms in office next year. Barred by the Constitution from serving for more than...
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June 11, 2010
When people around the world think of whale-hunting nations, the Caribbean is the last place that crosses their minds. Yet, the governments of Surinam...
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June 4, 2010
The widely publicised bloody clashes over the last few days between law enforcement agencies and armed gangs in Jamaica are as bad for the economic an...
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May 28, 2010
It is not often that a book comes along that should be in the Library of every school and on the list of civics reading material. âLiving my Dreamsâ...
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April 30, 2010
âNegotiating from Weaknessâ is the title of a paper written by Scott Sinclair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Basically, the paper...
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April 9, 2010
The Caribbean rum industry is being abandoned left, right and centre with no Caribbean government yet rising to the challenge thrown down by the Europ...
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April 1, 2010
THE European Commission (EC) has, once again, let down the Caribbean. This time on rum. All rum producers in the Dominican Republic and Caribbean Comm...
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March 12, 2010
The massive earthquakes in Haiti and Chile within six weeks of each other, on January 12 and February 27, respectively, revealed the limited capacity ...
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February 26, 2010
At last a French President visited Haiti - a country that contributed greatly to Franceâs accumulation of wealth in the 18th Century and which Franc...
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February 5, 2010
This commentary is being written in the first blush of the news that Rex Nettleford has died. A profound and deep sense of loss overcame me, and I hav...
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January 22, 2010
The massive 7.0 earthquake on January 12th in Haiti, which killed tens of thousands of people, evoked remarkable responses from all over the world; mo...
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January 8, 2010
In part one of this commentary I argued that 2000 to 2009 has proven to be a decade of decline for the Countries of the Caribbean Community and Common...
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December 23, 2009
Unless there is an environment in all Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) countries to help make businesses fully productive, they will no...
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December 11, 2009
There is now some strong talk by Caribbean governments and the Secretariat of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) about relations with...
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October 16, 2009
In Turkey, where meetings of the IMF and the World Bank were held during the week of October 4th, Caribbean Finance Ministers raised with the First De...
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October 2, 2009
In my commentary last week I made the point that the greatest destabilising force confronting the Caribbean and Central America is drug trafficking an...
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September 4, 2009
Small countries, such as those in the Caribbean, depend upon an efficient and well balanced Security Council at the United Nations to help to safeguar...
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August 21, 2009
When Commonwealth Heads of Government meet in Trinidad in November, they might have expected to welcome back to their councils a government of Fiji th...
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August 7, 2009
Call it Latin American âhot bloodâ or âCommonwealth coolâ, but there is definitely a marked difference between how the Organization of America...
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July 24, 2009
There may be lessons for Caribbean countries in negotiations between Latvia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a rescue programme totalling...
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July 17, 2009
Honduras is not a country with which the average Caribbean person is familiar. Therefore, recent events there have not been a major talking point exce...
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July 10, 2009
Seeing Jamaican guest workers on a farm in Canada recently reminded me of the close relationship that has always existed between Canada and the Caribb...
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June 26, 2009
I had to read the words of the letter three times because I could not believe my eyes on either of the two previous readings. This is what the Chairma...
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June 12, 2009
The economy of almost every Caricom country is now in recession. Caribbean Development Bank President, Compton Bourne, recently observed that: âIn s...
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May 29, 2009
A technical team has been appointed by the foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) to consider an application from th...
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May 15, 2009
The economic crisis in the Caribbean is set to get worse rather than better. Four years ago in a book entitled, âCrumbled Smallâ, I wrote: âSmal...
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April 30, 2009
It seems that every time the countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) make one step forward in the quest for deeper integratio...
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April 17, 2009
Developing countries failed to act collectively Throughout the Caribbean the effects of the global financial meltdown are being seen in a human face -...
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April 3, 2009
The members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) should move to establish immediately two separate bodies to regulate domestic non-b...
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March 20, 2009
In my last commentary entitled âTax Haven jurisdictions - Sitting Ducks and Scapegoatsâ, the point was made that British Prime Minister Gordon Bro...
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March 6, 2009
In the midst of a troubling global financial crisis, there is a little good news for the countries of the Caribbean. The region is to be one of the 20...
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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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