OUR CARIBBEAN: Guyana and the US/Venezuela row
By Rickey Singh from Barbados Nation News IN THE PREVAILING deteriorating diplomatic stand-off between the governments of the United States and Venezuela, Guyana must avoid suffering the fate of a “sandwich” bitten at both ends. The current case involves President…
To those politicians who don’t read the papers or watch the news
By Hugh Dunbar From Jamaica Observer To those politicians who don’t read the papers or watch the news ARCHITECTS are required to be knowledgeable in the area of building construction and design. Design requires a good deal of understanding of…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Measuring Caricom’s silence
By Rickey Singh From Barbados Nation News Having failed to resolve some sensitive regional political and security issues, Heads of Government of our Caribbean Community were still to approve earlier this week the official communiqué on their two-day inter-sessional meeting…
Caricom Heads of Government meetings are becoming a side show
By David Jessop · From Stabroek News When the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie, opens the 26th Caricom Heads of Government Intersessional meeting on February 26th in Nassau, one might be forgiven for wondering if this regional summit…
Make our local justice system more efficient before considering CCJ
By Elliott Penn From Jamaica Observer IMAGE: The Privy Council in London, England I am appalled and somewhat surprised that the current Government of Jamaica is against a referendum to determine if the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) should become…
St Kitts-Nevis election fiasco: symptom of a bigger problem
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday February 19, 2015 – Concern was rightly raised over the failure of the Supervisor of Elections in St Kitts-Nevis, Wingrove George, to declare the results of the February 16 general elections…
The Editor Speaks: Is Global warming true or false? Part 2
Last Tuesday and today I am setting out two different views on whether global warming is true or false. Both views have merit and both views also are questionable. However, it is a subject that both sides have distorted the…
As I see things: strong leadership essential to growth
By Brian Francis, From Barbados Nation news Ever since the global financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, many analysts throughout the Caribbean, including myself, have argued that if our countries are to return to the days of economic prosperity and…
China’s Yuan will rival US dollar globally
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday February 6, 2015 – Within the next ten years the world community should expect China’s Yuan (also called renminbi) to be as widely used as the United States dollar. For almost…
Implementing China’s new Caribbean policy
By David Jessop News Americas, LONDON, England: A few weeks ago, Dong Xiaojun, the Chinese Ambassador in Jamaica, wrote a commentary on the recent meetings held in Beijing between China and the Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American…





