Random comments: local situation, budget and others

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As I write this column, the 2019 Budget Debate in the House of Assembly is continuing. This fact and the need to take a rounded examination of the Bud...

Politics of folly -2

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The division within CARICOM on Venezuela not only demonstrates that body’s inherent weakness in the face of external pressures, but also exposes its...

The politics of folly, the futility of politics

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AS WE PREPARE for the annual parliamentary Budget Debate in the House of Assembly, there are already signs that the context will be an all-too-familia...

Sad and Worrying

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THE MEETING between Government and the leadership of the local trade unions last Friday marked another sad chapter in the continuing deterioration of...

2019 – Concerns over murder and transparency in promotion

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THE YEAR 2019 is now almost two weeks old but even as we mull over the memories of 2018, not pleasant for the most part, developments on the internati...

Cuba’s Diamond Jubilee

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IT IS CUSTOMARY at the beginning of each year for persons in the media and public figures to make either a review of the past year or to look forward ...

Have A Blue Christmas Season

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TRY AS WE may, there is little escaping the overwhelming commercial presence of the Christmas season. Side by side with, and enveloping even the be...

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As St Vincent and the Grenadines begins preparations for yet another celebration of its precious, and unique, NINE MORNINGS FESTIVAL, persons of my ge...

From blue economy to herb economy

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In this column last week, I began a discussion on what is referred to as the “Blue Economy”, following the conclusion of a major international con...

Sea water and sand ain’t all!

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Some years ago, in a stinging rebuke to the illusions of grandeur on the part of many Caribbean politicians, and narrow nationalism exhibited in some ...