By: Sir Ronald Sanders April 14, 2023 I was astonished recently to be told by one of the representatives of the Caribbean on the Board of the World Bank (WB)…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Mature response from Guyana at ICJ victory over Venezuela
By: Sir Ronald Sanders April 11, 2023 Guyana has won a second judgement in an ongoing case against Venezuela, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, “to…
Commentary: Why the continued deafening silence with regards to the financing of this new Balisier House.
By: Capil Bissoon April 4, 2023 Why the continued deafening silence on the many unanswered questions with regards to the financing of this new PNM Balisier House. It is not…
COMMENTARY: UN climate justice success should encourage small states to act together
By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 31, 2023 Efforts by small states to seek justice for damage and existential threats to their countries, caused by the world’s major environmental polluters, moved…
COMMENTARY: PNM not pursuing meaningful civil litigation
By: Capil Bissoon March 31, 2023 The PNM would want you to believe that in the 43 years they have been in Govt since Independence in 1962, they have been…
COMMENTARY: Kangaloo and Annisette-George have destroyed Trinidadian Parliamentary democracy
By: Capil Bissoon March 28, 2023 Both Kangaloo and Annisette-George have literally destroyed our Parliamentary democracy under the guise of political neutrality, behaving as though Parliament is an extension of…
COMMENTARY: Development crisis threatens Small States
By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 24, 2023 “The world is facing a crisis of development.” Those are the first words of a paper from officials of the World Bank Group…
COMMENTARY: Can political parties agree a social contract for national progress?
By: Sir Ronald Sanders March 17, 2023 Authoritative international bodies – among them, the respected Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) – have concluded that “democracy is under both…
HIS MAJESTY THE KING’S COMMONWEALTH DAY MESSAGE
By: H.M King Charles March 17, 2023 Email your opinions, letters and commentaries to: letters@caribmagplus.com
COMMENTARY: Commercial Paper – a useful financing mechanism
By: Wayne Dass March 10, 2023 Commercial Paper (CP) is short-term debt issued by corporates that is unsecured and used to finance short-term liabilities including inventory and payables. The original…
COMMENTARY: MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
By: Carla Barnett March 10, 2023 On 8 March 2023, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD), a special observance that…
COMMENTARY: How to stop the increasingly authoritarian slide in Latin America
By: Mark L. Schneider March 7, 2023 Hard not to throw up one’s hands and bemoan the drift to authoritarianism that one sees in country after country in the Western…