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Sir Ronald Sanders – A world less safe: The Caribbean is not immune
By Sir Ronald Sanders Events affecting Iran, prompted by the May 8 decision of US President Donald Trump to withdraw America from a 2015 nuclear deal, may appear irrelevant to Caribbean countries. They are not. One of the first effects…
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The View from Europe: Cuba, the EU and a post-Cotonue agreement
By DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate Just over a week ago, Cuba and the European Union held a first Joint Council meeting. It identified the principal multilateral and bilateral issues on which they hope in future to work more closely….
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Sir Ronald Sanders: Good journalism is a like a toothache: it hurts but it warns
By Sir Ronald Sanders Reporters Without Borders (RWB) just released its 2018 press freedom report and, apart from two of them, the lowest mark for rated Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries is “fairly good”. The worst, rated as “problematic”, are Haiti…
Beleaguered West Indies to face grieving Sri Lanka
From Jamaica Observer Editorial The world of sport is increasingly focused on football’s FIFA World Cup in Russia which begins in mid-June. But the dwindling numbers who still follow West Indies cricket will be aware of five crucial Test matches…
The Editor speaks: Ideas for successful schools
The Office of Education Standards (OES) is actively seeking input from the general public on the new inspection framework, “Successful Schools and Achieving Students”, by holding district meetings and conducting social media polls via the Cayman Islands Government Facebook page….
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Sir Ronald Sanders: Welcome Prince Charles by Royal wish and better sense
By Sir Ronald Sanders For two and half years since Commonwealth Heads of Government met in Malta in 2015, the British Government had been anxious to ensure that Prince Charles should succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, as Head of…
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Breaking the bank or the myth of blockchain brotopia – or both?
By Nisa Amoils From Forbes If ever there was a question as to whether NY is the capital of fintech or blockchain, it was answered this week. Through a series of events from May 11 – 17, “Blockchain Week New…
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Africa Focus: The British Royal Wedding, Feelgoodism and the Colonial Jumbie
By Tyehimba Salandy From Trinicenter Ten years ago, British ‘royalty’, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited the Caribbean and locals prostrated before them. Local leaders made arrangements for them to play the Steelpan and the sacred Rastafarian Nyabinghi drums….
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Royal Gazette: Letter to the Editor – “What a mess”
Unbeneficial: what a mess the British have made of this From The Royal Gazette Dear Sir, On May 9, the London Evening Standard published a Letter to the Editor entitled “The UK is bullying its overseas territories and trust is…
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The View From Europe: the future cost of Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
BY: DAVID JESSOP From The Barbados Advocate At first sight, last week’s decision by the US President to abrogate the hard-won 2015 UN Security Council deal on nuclear weapons with Iran may seem to have little bearing on the Caribbean….
