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Editorials
Enemies of the State? Is PM Skerrit serious?
March 16, 2021Last week when Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit uttered the phrase "Enemy of the State" he conjured images of Joseph Stalin, Donald Trump, and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels who used that ...
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Letters
When last did our Parliamentary Representative visit the Cuba Road ...
March 16, 2021I am driving down Cuba road in Mero; well, maybe I should say that I am carefully inching my way off a stretch of concrete road before I navigate my ...
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Spotlight
Re-name Arawak "Bully's House of Culture"
Ian JacksonMarch 11, 2021It happens everywhere, except in Dominica where we don't seem to honour artistes or sports personalities by immortalizing their names through the renaming streets, edifices, parks etc. In fact, the ...
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The View from Europe
Vaccine passports may hold the key to tourism's safe return
David JessopMarch 11, 2021From Russia to Singapore, nations around the world are considering providing citizens who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 with digital immunity certificates for domestic and international use. Their principal objective ...
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Our Caribbean
Caribbean people at risk of prolonging COVID-19 to their detriment
Sir Ron SandersMarch 11, 2021(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at ...
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Spotlight
Calypso 2021 semis Review
Ian JacksonFeb. 13, 2021This review of the 2021 Calypso semi-finals is devoted to the memory of Dominican Calypso stalwarts Alick Volaire, former Calypso writer; Wilfred "Pancho" Jno Baptiste, pannist and Calypso enthusiasts and ...
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The View from Europe
A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed
David JessopFeb. 13, 2021When the economies of the Caribbean and Central America finally exit the pandemic, most will be in crisis. As a recent IMF review of The Bahamas put it, recovery to ...
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Our Caribbean
Haiti – on the edge of disaster again
Sir Ron SandersFeb. 13, 2021(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at ...
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Editorials
This Sir Dennis Byron one-man Commission on Electoral Reform is ...
Feb. 13, 2021Quietly, very quietly, Dominica began a new phase in the apparently unending quest for electoral reform when Duncan Stowe, the new chairman of the Electoral Commission, announced two weeks ago ...
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Editorials
On cost-cutting in Government, PM Skerrit must become the Man ...
Feb. 9, 2021Last week on Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit "Annou Palè" radio programme, Denise Edwards, the acting Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, a guest on the programme that Mr. Skerrit ...
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Our Caribbean
Caribbean-US relations: chance to merge might with right
Sir Ron SandersJan. 28, 2021Events in Washington on January 20 were a welcome relief and release for the world.
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Spotlight
A New Year's Artistic Resolution
Ian JacksonJan. 28, 2021Will it be resolved by 2021 that musicians and performing artistes will form a union or be part of the umbrella of the Association of Music Professions (AMP) where their ...