COVID and elections
It has taken just over a week for the official results of the 2020 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago to be announced officially. Thankfully, w...
21 August 2020
COVID and elections
It has taken just over a week for the official results of the 2020 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago to be announced officially. Thankfully, w...
14 August 2020
Ting Fo’ Tark, but time and space Na’dey
There is an old local saying which goes like this-“Ting dey fo’ tark, but time na dey”, meaning that there are many issues to be discussed but t...
07 August 2020
Learning from Guyana: and, COVID elections?
The most meaningless holiday weekend of my life has at last elapsed. It would have been so refreshing if the weekend holidays, a span of Saturday to W...
31 July 2020
Our continuing struggle for emancipation
Emancipation, the legal ending of chattel slavery in the Caribbean, is supposed to be one of the biggest days in the English-speaking Caribbean calen...
24 July 2020
Subverting The Will of The People
Sometimes I wonder whether those persons who put themselves forward for political office and aspire to become Parliamentarians, Ministers or even to r...
17 July 2020
Cricketing lessons
In a world starving badly for live sport, cricket has not had such a golden opportunity for decades to grab international attention as it did last wee...
10 July 2020
Not just regional travel at stake
The LIAT demise and, to a lesser extent, the ongoing controversy over the outcome of the March elections in Guyana, have dominated the regional news...
03 July 2020
When will we get it right?
-Reprehensible attack on Justice Saunders
As of today, Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves assumes the role of Chairman of CARICOM for the nex...
26 June 2020
Cross-party agreement on conduct of elections needed
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), in spite of it being predominantly composed of small island-nations and, in international terms, miniscule populat...
19 June 2020
Seize the moment, make maximum use of space
It was most heartening to see attempts by concerned groups and individuals in the Caribbean last week to organize activities in solidarity with those ...
