By: Paul Sarran June 3, 2025 In the wake of Trinidad and Tobago’s 2025 general election, a familiar debate has resurfaced concerning the practice of appointing unsuccessful election candidates to…
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COMMENTARY: CARICOM Secretary-General’s remarks at the Third CARICOM-Colombia Ministerial Meeting
By: Dr Carla Barnett May 30, 2025 CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr Carla Barnett delivered remarks at the Third CARICOM-Colombia Ministerial Meeting, which was convened on 28 May in Cartagena, Colombia. The…
COMMENTARY: Environmental integrity is the focus of CARICOM’s efforts to secure a sustainable future for our Region – CARICOM SG
By: Dr Carla Barnett May 27, 2025 Dr Barnett delivered an address at the closing ceremony for the Capacity Building for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific…
COMMENTARY: Echoes of Her Voice: Reclaiming Family, Memory, and Identity Through Oral History
By: Christiana Best, Ph.D. May 23, 2025 My journey into oral history began with a sense of quiet desperation—a need to recover what was slipping away. Long before I trained…
COMMENTARY: Kamla sparked national controversy with death penalty call
By: Paul Sarran May 20, 2025 Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s renewed call to reintroduce the death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago has sparked a national conversation rooted in law, morality,…
COMMENTARY: US Immigration Laws: A message for Caribbean nationals
By: Sir Ronald Sanders May 16, 2025 “A nation without borders is not a nation.” That is the opening line of an advisory issued by the US Department of State…
COMMENTARY: Does Artificial Intelligence hinder the attainment of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 and gender equality in the Caribbean?
By: Rebecca Theodore May 13, 2025 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been sanctioned as a foundation of a utopian society. However, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is…
COMMENTARY: Remarks by the CARICOM Secretary-General at the Opening of the Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR)
By: Dr Carla Barnett May 9, 2025 It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to this Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR). I thank…
COMMENTARY: 2025 Trinidadian election a sobering blow to PNM
By: Paul Sarran May 9, 2025 The 2025 general election dealt a sobering blow to the People’s National Movement (PNM), ending its time in government and marking a period of…
COMMENTARY: Trinidadian autonomy could be huge political shift
By: Paul Sarran May 9, 2025 If a UNC-led government were to approve Tobago’s autonomy, it could fundamentally shift the political landscape in Trinidad and Tobago particularly by undermining the…
COMMENTARY: A silent emergency: Mental health demands our voice, our will, our action
By: Sir Ronald Sanders May 6, 2025 Across the nations of the Americas, a silent emergency is suffocating hope, stealing futures, and exacting an unbearable toll in lives lost and…
COMMENTARY: 2025 T&T Election a crushing blow to the PNM
By: Paul Sarran May 6, 2025 The 2025 general elections in Trinidad and Tobago delivered a crushing blow to the People’s National Movement (PNM), a party once seen as the…