Commentary

The proof of the pudding is in the eating and not in the looking, and believe me when I say that the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are a pudding layered with opportunity and profit! Well, maybe you still don’t believe me. And that is ok. There were...

I was pleased to have been asked to engage Canada’s minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship in a wide-raging conversation on Canada’s migration policy and practice on Monday, May 20, at the Regional Headquarters of the University of the...

Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, even Belize and St Kitts, are now what journalists refer to as “hotbeds” of political activity. Whether this comes from sleeping with the devil, or any of the other strange bedfellows connected with global...

A panel discussion this week in Grenada, marking the 40th anniversary of that country’s four-and-a-half years of revolution, has turned up International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank data that make for a very interesting comparison with...

Due to advancing deforestation, over 100 rivers dried up on our little island in the 20th century. In my first column of the new millennium (in 2001), I predicted that the big issue of the 21st century would be water. As population increases, we...

Peter Phillips deserves plaudits for acknowledging that the parties colluded – although he didn’t put it that way – to limit the transparency of integrity investigations of politicians and public officials, and for now wanting to put things...

Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness, made a compassionate gesture by appearing in an advertisement with young actress Jordan Spencer. The honourable minister gave support to this actress who suffers discrimination because she was...

For most of my life, I was a loyal carnivore. I hated all vegetables except broccoli, which only interested me because I had it ingrained in my head from childhood that they were trees and I, the big bad hurricane. I despised peas and so I had to...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was, on the face of it, unanimous in its rejection last week of Donald Trump’s rekindling of the contumelious Helms-Burton Act that allows Americans to sue foreigners who possess ­former US-owned properties in Cuba...

Surely, if last week taught us ­anything, it’s that not every ­circumstance that seems criminal really is. Especially when viewed with the trained, legal eye. Where laymen see what appears to them as nepotism, corruption and certain jail time,...

If men did not exist, there would be no abortions. Pregnancies do not just occur magically. In order for conception to take place, sperm and egg must meet. The egg comes from a woman, and the sperm from a man. No man, no sperm. No sperm, no...

In 2014, I sojourned to Songyuan, a rustic and quaint prefecture in China’s Jilin province. Blacks were very scarce in the area, and so it was not long before I catapulted to a celebrity-like status. Whenever I walked the streets, dined in...