WTO gets first African and female boss

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Roughly one week ago, the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its new Director-General (DG). Dr. Okonjo-Iweala previou...

A Lockdown is not a Panacea to end CoVID-19

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), extensive physical distancing measures and movement restrictions, often referred to as ‘lockdownsâ...

Vaccine Nationalism is a Zero-Sum Game

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A YEAR AGO, developing a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the end of 2020 seemed like an impossible task. Afterall, ...

Caribbean-US Relations in the Biden Era

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Now that the Biden Administration has begun, one would imagine that just about every country, region and major international organisation is position...

From crisis to opportunity

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GOOD NEWS SEEMS scarce now as the world continues to reel from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Vaccine candidates which were given emer...

Profiles in Courage

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In 1956, then Senator John F. Kennedy, who eventually became President of the United States (US), was given credit for authoring a volume of short bio...

The Bridge to Nowhere

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I recently came across the story of the Choluteca Bridge. The Choluteca Bridge is a suspension bridge located in Choluteca, Honduras. It was first con...

The Clock is Ticking on Brexit

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At the time of writing, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, had just hours prior, agreed to e...

The world needs strong regionalism

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Regionalism can be a building block for a better world. When there is cooperation within and across regions in areas such as trade, investment, the en...

The UK’s Fork in the Road moment

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Circumstances appear to have conspired to place the United Kingdom (UK) in limbo on many fronts. Like the rest of the world, it is dealing with the gl...