June 5, 2026 The challenge with measuring development aid is in what is the end result supposed to be compared to what was actually delivered and are the intended beneficiaries…
Category: EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL: Poor Misick
June 2, 2026 Former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael Misick, has been thoroughly humiliated and disgraced. To be sentenced to jail time in the country you once…
EDITORIAL: We are halfway through 2026 already
May 29, 2026 Next week Monday will be June 1, marking the end of the year’s first six months. Before you realize it, December will be here and we will…
EDITORIAL: SMEs need a chance to thrive
May 26, 2026 Small and Medium Sized Businesses will always need support. Particularly, they will always need access to finance. However, there is only so much the public sector can…
EDITORIAL: There is no need to push Cuba
May 22, 2026 I think it is safe to say that Communism is a failure. The recent interest in changing the regime in Cuba is a waste of time and…
EDITORIAL: What if the Trump administration had shot down that Bahamian plane?
May 19, 2026 There was a Bahamian plane that went down with a wanted drug trafficker on board. Thank God he was not known to have been on board before…
EDITORIAL: Happy Mother’s Day
May 15, 2026 How dare we forget to wish all of the mothers out there in our readership and the wider Caribbean and Central American region a very Happy Mother’s…
EDITORIAL: When is Haiti’s elections?
May 12, 2026 This is now going on 5 years since Haiti’s former president was assassinated and still the country has not had an election for his replacement. How long…
EDITORIAL: Poverty is declining, but the LAC is not getting richer
May 8, 2026 We note with great interest the ECLAC report that indicates that poverty is declining. That’s good. Most of us don’t feel it, however because we don’t feel…
EDITORIAL: Is there really a ceasefire in Iran?
May 5, 2026 I have to admit, I am a little curious with what’s happening between Iran, the US and Israel and this supposed ceasefire. US President Donald Trump said…
EDITORIAL: China is effectively out in Panama
May 1, 2026 The People’s Republic of China may as well get used to the fact that it is effecivtly out of the Panama Canal and under the Donald Trump…
EDITORIAL: Caribbean economy a mixed bag.
April 28, 2026 The Caribbean economy is a conundrum. One the one hand, growth has been weak over the 2025. But, on the other hand, Guyana is the only country…