By: Paul Sarran September 17, 2024 The 2025 general election in Trinidad and Tobago will mark a significant moment in the country’s political landscape, as the People’s National Movement (PNM)…
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COMMENTARY: MESSAGE FROM DR. CARLA N. BARNETT SECRETARY-GENERAL CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) ON CARIBBEAN WELLNESS DAY
Dr. Carla Barnett September 17, 2024 Caribbean Wellness Day 2024 is being observed on Saturday, 14 September, under the 2020-2024 theme, ‘Power through Collective Action’, and the 2024 sub-theme ‘Good…
COMMENTARY: REMARKS by Dr Carla Barnett, CARICOM Secretary-General | Flagraising Ceremony – Africa CARICOM Day 2024 | Barbados
By: Dr Carla Barnett September 10, 2024 I am pleased to join you as we mark Africa-CARICOM Day 2024 here in Barbados. This special day is testimony to the bonds…
COMMENTARY: Shridath Ramphal: His legacy to the Caribbean is also the path to its brighter future
By: Sir Ronald Sanders September 6, 2024 In the 1970s, as newly independent nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and the Pacific sought to shape their economic futures, the world they…
COMMENTARY: Poverty: The root cause of global and national tensions: A call for OAS action.
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 30, 2024 Poverty is the festering wound at the heart of the world’s social, economic, and political tensions. In the Americas, it is a stark…
COMMENTARY: Rising gun crimes in the Caribbean: Urgent action required by all
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 23, 2024 There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger people and gangs. This plague has now spread from other parts of…
COMMENTARY: ADDRESS BY CARICOM SECY GEN. ON CBU HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
By: Dr Carla Barnett August 16, 2024 I am pleased to address you all for the convening of this Annual General Assembly and related activities. As a proud Belizean, I…
COMMENTARY: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate
By: Diana Roy and Amelia Cheatham Venezuela’s ongoing descent into economic and political chaos is a cautionary tale of the dangerous influence that resource wealth can have on developing countries. Summary…
COMMENTARY: Verification of election results: A pathway to progress for Venezuela
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 9, 2024 In the immediate aftermath of the Venezuelan presidential elections, whose results were widely disputed within Venezuela and by the majority of neighbouring Latin…
COMMENTARY: Trinidad and Tobago: Ascending to the Role of Capital of the Caribbean and Its Far-Reaching Positive Impacts
By: Paul Sarran August 6, 2024 Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation in the southern Caribbean, has emerged as a formidable contender for the title of the “Capital of the…
COMMENTARY: Age, Race, and Fear: The US elections and Caribbean interests
By: Sir Ronald Sanders August 2, 2024 The outcome of the US Presidential elections will reverberate globally, impacting many nations. Every government, including those in the Caribbean, has begun to…
COMMENTARY: Remarks by the Secretary General of CARICOM at the opening conference of the 47th regular meeting of the conference heads of government.
By: Dr Carla Barnett July 30, 2024 I extend a very warm welcome to this re-scheduled Forty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community…