By: Anthony Gafoor June 15, 2021 The heated media debates on the UWI Chancellor’s Governance Report and its alleged connections to the delay in the renewal of the Vice-Chancellor have…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Why 84 countries are borrowing from the IMF
By Sir Ronald Sanders June 4, 2021 In the wake of the economic damage done by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in every continent of the world have…
COMMENTARY: Get illegal migrants vaccinated
By Sir Ronald Sanders May 28, 2021 Not vaccinating illegal migrants against the coronavirus would be a fatal mistake in every country. Unvaccinated persons pose a real threat to subduing…
COMMENTARY: Vaccine refusal is as dangerous a pandemic as COVID-19
By: Sir Ronald Sanders May 21, 2021 Vaccine refusal is fast becoming as dangerous to human health and to economies as the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, even before the novel…
COMENTARY: Gender-based violence: an overlooked risk in development projects
By: María Amelia Viteri May 21, 2021 With the urge that building gender equality may convey, the social safeguard policies of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) encompass concrete actions to…
COMMENTARY: Clean and Green – The New Economy Set to Transform the Caribbean
By: Deodat Maharaj May 18, 2021 Seismic shifts are taking place in the global economic architecture as countries accelerate efforts to transition clean and green economies. In 2015, at the…
COMMENTARY: Vaccinate or suffocate – the stark choice
By Sir Ronald Sanders May 14, 2021 Sections of the population in many of the 14 independent CARICOM countries are in grave danger of undermining their own health and economic…
COMMENTARY: NAVIGATING THE UWI GALAXY: RETURN OF THE JEDI, SIR HILARY BECKLES
By: Anthony Gafoor May 11, 2021 Despite pervasive comments of covert, threatening actions from a traitorous Darth Vader, on Friday, April 30, 2021, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West…
COMMENTARY: Opinions from Trinidad on the removal of SORT police head Mark Hernandez
By Eve George May 7, 2021 On January 29, 2021 a young woman and Judicial clerk Andrea Bharatt 23 disappeared after taking a cab to home. On February 4 at…
COMMENTARY: A storm brewing over Haiti at the OAS
By Sir Ronald Sanders May 7, 2021 Strong disagreement may be brewing at the Organization of American States (OAS) on how to respond to the ongoing, grave political and constitutional…
COMMENTARY: It is time for a new US-CARICOM partnership
By: David JessopMay 4, 2021 Perhaps the most important aspect of the short statement issued in Washington after a first two-hour meeting last week between the new US Secretary of…
COMMENTARY: Biden Evades Responsibility and Avoids Solutions to Raging Border Crisis, Charges FAIR
May 4, 2021 The following statements were issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in response to President Biden’s first address to a joint…