PETER WICKHAM: Political 2017
By Peter Wickham From Nation News Barbados 2017 IS LIKELY to be a relatively quiet year politically in this region as there is only one scheduled election in the Cayman Islands. Politicos in the southern and eastern Caribbean tend not…
President Obama and the War On Terror
By Ewin James. William Tecumseh Sherman, a General in the Union Army in the American Civil war said that war is hell. This means that no war is good. A war may be inevitable and in the end serve some…
David Jessop: Moment for careful reflection
By David Jessop From Trinidad Express The coming year is likely to be among the most strategically challenging that Caribbean leaders and senior ministers responsible for more than domestic policy will have faced since independence or the US intervention/invasion of…
Bone conduction
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio In my ongoing search for the perfect wireless headphones, I have made several observations. I can’t and won’t tolerate anything sticking inside my ear I don’t want over-ear headphones for outdoor use They have…
The Editor speaks: I saw three butterflies come flying in
The three butterflies were flying on three separate days the week before Christmas taking pollen from flowers in our front garden in Newlands. The first butterfly was huge, one of the largest I have ever witnessed. Joan, my wife, thought…
Disaster risks outweigh cover
By SHAWN CUMBERBATCH From Nation News Should Barbados and the region be more focused on disaster risk insurance? Whether you call them catastrophes or disasters, there are some events that are potentially crippling to countries, especially small nations like Barbados…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Exceptionailsm and failure: Lessons from Brexit
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Sir Ronald Sanders Blog The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost in a troubled British economy, however much British government ministers and other English nationalistic hopefuls are trying to suggest otherwise. It was a…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Outraged for black womanhood
By Sir Ronald Sanders From sirronaldsanders.com After a lifetime in Caribbean and international politics, I thought the time had long since passed when I could be outraged by any event. But I was outraged last week and I continue to…
Sir Ronald Sanders: The dignity of the Obamas
By Sir Ronald Sanders As Barack Obama’s Presidency of the United States of America enters its final weeks, there are tens of millions of people in America and across the world who already feel a great sense of loss. That…
The UK aid charade… Meanwhile, Montserrat misses out
By Mike Jarvis From Caribbean News Now The Don and DfID Masquerade Dance: Quadrille No. 1 An old saying cautions that ‘the light at the end of the tunnel might be the oncoming train’. That being so then, in the…






