GEORGETOWN, Guyana - January 4, 2021 - The Village Voice - If there is one thing that should be above partisan politics, it is the management of the dividends from our oil and gas sector. It is an aspect of our politics that is too sensitive to be played around with. After all, the current socio-economic state of the country is the result of the centuries of denial suffered by all groups in our society.
BRIDGETOWN Barbados, January 3, 2021 - As the political parties get ready to launch their campaigns consequent upon the calling of general elections on January 19, 2022 by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, political pundits are busy pontificating whether Mottley will win or lose.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 2021 - On April 19, 1832, the following sentence, signed by John Coates, Robert Thomas Downer and H. A. Plummer, was handed down against a man who all Jamaica should remember today, December 26, amidst the Christmas and Kwanzaa celebrations:
KINGSTON, December 22, 2021 - The town of Black River in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, holds a special place in the bosom of of our ancestors, as today is yet another anniversary of the arrival of the slave trading ship the Zong at Black River on December 22, 1781.
Recent evolutionary happenings in the island nation of Barbados have given rise to a welcome stir within the region. The Jamaica Observer editorial of Wednesday, December 1, wondered whether Jamaica would "follow the course set by Barbados" in completing the circle of independence by moving away from the monarchy to become a republic within the Commonwealth.
President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson, who former Prime Minister Edward Seaga once described as being from ‘good stock’, was at his party-political tribal best in the Senate on Friday, November 26, when he railed against Opposition senators for voting against the resolution calling for an extension of the states of emergency (SOEs).
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 4, 2021 - The Message underlying Barbados divesting itself of the Queen of England as its Head of State, and distancing itself from its old British colonial trappings and becoming a Republic, is that Barbados intends to become as self-reliant, culturally confident, resilient, self-sufficient, sustainable, and as socially just and equal as possible.
The following is a letter from Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Dr. Ralph Gonsalves to The Prime Minister of Barbados, The Hon. Mia Mottley on the occasion of the transition of Barbados to that of a Parliamentary Democracy on Republic Day, November 30, 2021.
BEIJING, China, - Por Xin Ping - Sept, 2021 - Ernesto is a Cuban farmer. Twenty-five years ago, he lost his left leg. Every day, he works in the field with a prosthesismade of aluminium and plastic fibres, rough and rigid. Ernesto wants a specialized prosthesis of good quality so that he can work better. However, due to the U.S. embargo, the rigid prosthesis is all he could get.
Florida, United States, September 4, 2021 - In my April 2020 commentary: “GUYANA | Workable, Transparent Gov't Policy Needed for Oil and Gas Investment” an important bullet point read: “Guyana has but one limited, time-bound chance, to make oil and gas its pathway to sustainable development with environmental and human development equity.”
