OPINION: How many Caribbean politicians are still Cuban assets?
By Sandra Bynoe May 31, 2022 The Cubans spent 50 years finding foolish young international students who showed signs of being attracted to communism and making them assets of the Cuban State. Walter Rodney was a Russian/Cuban asset, and he…
OPINION: Should we ban the Russians or ban the Comrade?
By Nathan Green, St Vincent and the Grenadines With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have to instruct our Government that we want nothing more to do with Russia. But unfortunately, for many years, the state of Saint Vincent and…
OPINION: More Money than Sand
By Nathan Green. February 2022. Dubai is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and has become a regional business hub in the Middle East. Behind the facade of respectability that Dubai has carefully…
OPINION: St. Vincent in Crisis
By Nathan Jolly. October 19, 2021. The years 2019 to 2021 will be remembered as the most significant global pandemic since Spanish influenza. As COVID 19 and its mutated variants encompass the globe, it leaves a trail of human destruction…
OPINION: Letter to the Editor
 Signs of our times  It is said that the more things change the likelihood is that they will always remain the same. We have to take notice that “Cuba turned the page on the Castro era on Monday with…
OPINION: Surveyor
By H. James At this Easter time: At this time of the year and month that we in the western world have become to call Easter, some individuals are thus enjoying the holiday period, others may well take the time…
OPINION: Saint Vincent Judas Style
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green Let us discuss Judas Law, Judas Politics, and Judas Business. The Vincentian Judas syndrome. Pontious Pilate and Herod were murderous statesmen, but unlike today’s political leaders they were then and are now historically called statesmen. Today…
OPINION: Show us the Reports or Resign
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. October 07, 2020. Is this a matter of PM Gonsalves failing to do what he said he would, or is it something darker than that? I hate even to ask that question, but someone must, due…
OPINION: Understanding the Second and perhaps the Third Wave
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green, May 4, 2020 We have all heard of the saying “history always repeats itself.” Well the COVID 19 virus is a pandemic, just like the Spanish Flu of 1918 was a pandemic. Like today, in Britain,…
OPINION: Too big for his shoes with a lot to lose
From Jolly Green What is wrong with Saint Vincent’s PM Ralph E Gonsalves. Some will say he has always been an obnoxious big-headed man with a devotion to left-wing politics and Cuban communism in particular. Some will say they love…