Peter Binose: Argyle Airport is due to open, here is the lowdown
By Peter Binose Let’s hope that any airlines that are considering using the Argyle International Airport on the island of Saint Vincent the gateway to St. Vincent and the Grenadines and those most wonderful Grenadines islands take notice of this…
Americans that are black – from my master to my leader
By John Skippings From Caribbean News Now Back in the days of slavery, blacks were controlled by [slave] masters. Today, in the most modern of times, they have leaders. And while it would be unfair to compare one with the…
Cuba is an imminent competitor
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now My commentary this week is an expanded version of a response I gave to a Jamaican journalist who asked me: what are the implications for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean of US…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Not the time for surprises
By Ricky Singh From Barbados Nationnews So Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has found it necessary to quickly suspend the proposed “biometric exit” system that his administration had surprisingly announced for implementation from April l. Incidentally, this development was not intended to…
Why text messaging is ruining conversation among millennials
By Brandon Katz From HNGN We Millennials are killing the art of conversation and the desire to make our voices heard – really heard – one text message at a time. I hate texting. I hate that we’d rather send a…
Peter Binose: “No” I will wait for the next bus, go feed the babies
By Peter Binose Are we led in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by a Scrounging Monster? Ralph Gonsalves is more than happy to take money from PetroCaribe whilst Venezuelans are in the throes of starvation and with little or no…
The Editor Speaks: Why aren’t we more safety conscious?
Why aren’t we more safety conscious? Following on from the recent accident at the Cayman Islands building project, The Mansion at Pease Bay, where a man lost his life, one cannot say whether it was due to insufficient safety standards…
Immigration and trade in politics – Part Two
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now In the first part of this commentary on immigration and trade in politics, the focus was on the present primaries of the US presidential election. Both issues have been hotly debated, particularly…
When a kleptocrat comes calling: Global money laundering and the ABA
By Michael D. Goldhaber, From The American Lawyer A prospective client walks into your office and tells you the following story in a bad German accent. He works for a West African mining minister who makes the salary of a…
Another review, another rejection expected
By Tony Cozier From ESPN cricketinfo Four governance reviews of West Indies cricket have not been acted upon, because the board does not want change The West Indies Cricket Board confirmed at its annual general meeting in Jamaica last weekend…