By: Paul Sarran December 5, 2025 The declaration of January 12, 2026, as the Tobago House of Assembly election date has already sent ripples across the political landscape, not only in…
Category: OPINIONS
COMMENTARY: Godwin has a resounding mandate, clear signal SVG want renewed leadership
By: Paul Sarran December 2, 2025 As a young political scientist from Trinidad and Tobago, it is with great optimism and admiration that I extend heartfelt congratulations to the Honourable…
‘Hunger and War: The oldest crime the world still permits’
By: Sir Ronald Sanders November 28, 2025 The governments of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering. That is the bleak truth behind a…
COMMENTARY: ‘Hunger and War: The oldest crime the world still permits’
By: Sir Ronald Sanders November 25, 2025 The governments of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering. That is the bleak truth behind a…
COMMENTARY: Anti UNC media pandering to former PM Rowley
By: Capil Bissoon November 21, 2025 The media and anti-UNC forces continue to pander to this unwanted, unwarranted and intrusive behavior of a former Prime Minister with his refusal to…
COMMENTARY: A Wake in Brooklyn, A Memory of Grenada
By: Christiana Best-Giacomini, Ph.D. November 14, 2025 “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is a popular saying, recently made famous by Kelly Clarkson, but it is a proverb I…
COMMENTARY: Remarks by President António Costa at the opening session of the EU-CELAC summit.
By: Antonio Costa November 14, 2025 It is a great honour to open, together with President Petro, this fourth summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and…
COMMENTARY: ‘Sovereignty’ – A plaything of the powerful?
By: Sir Ronald Sanders November 7, 2025 Sovereignty is supposedly the cornerstone of international order: the formal declaration that every state has the right to govern itself, protect its territory,…
COMMENTARY: Coercion in Daylight: The world must outlaw arbitrary detention
By: Sir Ronald Sanders October 31, 2025 The practice has an ugly name and an uglier intent: arbitrary detention in State-to-State relations means this: tyrannical regimes seize innocents to make…
COMMENTARY: The Caribbean as a “Zone of Peace” and the Role of Civil Society
By: Rebecca Theodore October 28, 2025 As diplomatic relations between the United States and the Caribbean become increasingly complex, it now appears evident, that a peace chorus juxtaposes civil society’s…
COMMENTARY: Law, Power, and the Caribbean’s test of unity – in face of US military action
By: Sir Ronald Sanders October 24, 2025 Four days after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government reaffirmed the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, Prime Minister Kamla Persad‑Bissessar of Trinidad…
COMMENTARY: A New World Order — or the formal admission of the Old?
By: Sir Ronald Sanders October 21, 2025 The world has long spoken of a “rules-based order,” as though the law itself held dominion over power. Yet, behind the diplomatic courtesies…