OPINION: It is the general duty for the judiciary to give reasons for a court decision
By Jolly Green The desirability of having a general duty to give reasons for court decisions has been much debated in Commonwealth jurisdictions. In England, a series of cases has consistently upheld the duty. The existence of this general duty…
Things that matter: Caribbean Wax Museum, ‘the land’ and other fine art treasures
BY: SIR HENRY FRASER From Barbados Advocate The Caribbean Wax Museum, the brain child of sculptors Art Edwards and partner Frances Ross, has just been relocated from Maxwell to the centre of Bridgetown, in the Norman Centre on Broad Street….
Glavin: Party time in Davos while the world burns
By Terry Glavin, Special to Postmedia Network From owensound suntimes Against a backdrop of shuddering and implosion in the key institutions of the liberal world order, it wasn’t easy to discern anything encouraging in the 48th annual gathering of the…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Is the OAS’ credibility in doubt?
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON, United States, Friday January 26, 2018 – Not for the first time, the Organization of American States (OAS) is in danger of reinforcing the widely held view that it ignores its own declared…
Eric Douglas: Don’t be lonely just because it’s winter
By Eric Douglas From Metro Kanawha I just finished reading the book “The Healthy Writer” by Joanna Penn and Euan Lawson. It’s not about writing, but being healthy in a life that involves a lot of sitting and sedentary behavior….
The Caribbean is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman
From The Tempest I recently attended a memorial service to mark the one year anniversary of a woman who was kidnapped and found dead a few days later. It shook me to my core. For the last decade or so,…
Peter Polack: The case against a new Cayman Court House
By Peter Polack The present congestion and lack of court space has its genesis in several factors the greatest of which was the 2011 removal of the preliminary inquiries in the Summary Court. The brief and low resource preliminary inquiry…
The Caribbean needs incubators!
From SMN-N Wow, why, what? Is there an upcoming baby-boom? Is it related to this year’s carnival? Why don’t they distribute contraceptives? Those are questions that I don’t have answers for. But I had something else in mind anyway. I…
Ewin James: Stupid and brilliant
Many people are allowing themselves to be convinced by the mainstream media in America that President Donald Trump, is stupid and is pathologically unfit to govern, especially when compared to the reputed brilliant President Barack Obama. Is that so…
The View from Europe: Time to reconsider the value of cruise tourism?
BY DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate At the end of November, the Cuban government hosted an unusual meeting. Then, the Presidents of nine of the world’s leading cruise companies, plus significant figures from three others, met with Cuban ministers and…






