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Brief summits not enough
US President Barack Obama and Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller have pronounced his visit to Jamaica and their bilateral discussions to be a success. What is certain is that media coverage...
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Lukewarm to the Commonwealth?
The political parties contesting the May 7 general election in Britain have now published their manifestoes and my friend and colleague, Professor Philip Murphy, found in them a “decidedly lukewarm...
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Youth, unemployment and selling citizenship
The economies of Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are not doing well. Belize, Guyana and Suriname are the only three economies showing appreciable growth. The major effect of little or no growth...
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Tourism competition is not a guessing game
The performance of only five of the 14 independent Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are recorded in the 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum.Of...
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China: Strike while the iron is hot
China’s Premier Li Keqiang, accompanied by over 100 senior Chinese business leaders, visited four South American countries for eight days in May. Along the way, he pledged hundreds of billions of...
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Let the International Court decide
It is, to say the least, unfortunate that Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, has allowed domestic pressures to cause him to take the extreme measure of issuing a decree on May 27, creating the...
View ArticleThe Commonwealth’s future
Questioning the relevance and value of the Commonwealth of Nations is nothing new for such has occurred ever since the modern Commonwealth was created in 1949. However, doubts have intensified in...
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Caribbean nations under attack
Once again, Commonwealth Caribbean countries are under attack as “tax havens,” even though they are nothing of the sort. This time, it is not only the usual countries that have been listed. T&T has...
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A Caribbean banking agency in the US
Caribbean governments, indigenous banks and offshore banks located in the Caribbean are extremely concerned about the withdrawal of correspondent relations from Caribbean banks by banks in the United...
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Governments failed the OAS
The 46th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was not a successful event. This judgement is in no way related to the government of the Dominican Republic (DR), the organisers...
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