By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 28, 2026 For generations, Kenscoff was where people from Port-au-Prince went to breathe. Its cool hills offered relief, and its farmers supplied the capital’s markets.…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: OECS Criminal Issues
By: Trevor Young August 28, 2026 As a well trained former police officer by the Regional Security System (RSS) and as an international author of books in my own right,…
COMMENTARY: Facts, due process and fairness: The CCJ’s test
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 25, 2026 I have been an advocate of the Caribbean Court of Justice from its conception. In 2015, on the Court’s tenth anniversary, I described…
COMMENTARY: Stop the Money Flow to Organised Crime in Haiti
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 21, 2026 Haiti’s plight must not be forgotten because it is no longer a regular feature of international headlines. The suffering has not diminished. Between…
COMMENTARY: Transparency, Sovereignty, and the Challenge of Power
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 18, 2026 Few issues test the sovereignty of small states more severely than requests made by powerful friends. How should a country respond when cooperation…
EDITORIAL: Thank God for this quiet hurricane season
August 14, 2026 We just have to thank God that this projected soft hurricane season is shaping up to be exactly what it was said it was going to be,…
COMMENTARY: CARICOM Education Ministers begin two-day meeting in Guyana
By: Dr Carla Barnett August 14, 2026 Good morning! It is a pleasure to join you for the opening of this Fifty-Second Meeting of the Council for Human and Social…
COMMENTARY: The $269.9 Billion Question: What Is the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mass Deportation?
By: Christiana Best-Giacomini, Ph.D. August 7, 2026 For years, the national conversation about immigration has focused primarily on borders, enforcement, and security. Americans have repeatedly heard arguments about the cost…
COMMENTARY: The Changing Face of American Immigration
By: Christiana Best-Giacomini, Ph.D. August 7, 2026 The demographic landscape of the United States has changed dramatically over the past sixty years. A major turning point came with the Immigration…
COMMENTARY: Regional Unity Can No Longer Wait
By Garfield L. Angus August 4, 2026 As the Caribbean confronts mounting economic uncertainty, escalating Climate threats, transnational crime and shifting geopolitical alliances, the call by outgoing CARICOM Chairman, Dr.…
COMMENTARY: Message from the Honourable Philip J Pierre, Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
By: Philip J Pierre August 4, 2026 My sisters and brothers of Saint Lucia and across our Caribbean Community, Today, we remember the women, men and children, those whose bodies were…
COMMENTARY: Nicaragua’s abandoned ballot: What the OAS can and cannot do
By: Sir Ronald Sanders July 31, 2026 Daniel Ortega has now said openly what his regime has demonstrated for years: the people of Nicaragua are not to be permitted to…