17 July 2009
Honduras: A Coup provoked

Honduras: A Coup provoked


Honduras is not a country with which the average Caribbean person is familiar. Therefore, recent events there have not been a maj...
10 July 2009
Opportunities to strengthen Canada-Caricom relations

Opportunities to strengthen Canada-Caricom relations


Seeing Jamaican guest workers on a farm in Canada recently reminded me of the close relationship that has always existed between Canada and the Caribb...
26 June 2009
What did Bermuda get for taking Guantánamo detainees?

What did Bermuda get for taking Guantánamo detainees?


I had to read the words of the letter three times because I could not believe my eyes on either of the two previous readings. This is what the Chairma...
12 June 2009
Regional Integration or Caribbean Catastrophe?

Regional Integration or Caribbean Catastrophe?


The economy of almost every Caricom country is now in recession. Caribbean Development Bank President, Compton Bourne, recently observed that: “...
29 May 2009
CARICOM: Lost within a widened Caribbean Community?

CARICOM: Lost within a widened Caribbean Community?


A technical team has been appointed by the foreign ministers of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) to consider an...
15 May 2009
Caribbean crisis: No time to spare

Caribbean crisis: No time to spare


The economic crisis in the Caribbean is set to get worse rather than better. Four years ago in a book entitled, ‘Crumbled Small’, I wrote: ...
30 April 2009
Time to care again for CARICOM

Time to care again for CARICOM


It seems that every time the countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) make one step forward in the quest f...
17 April 2009
G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean

G20 Summit did nothing for the Caribbean


Developing countries failed to act collectivelyThroughout the Caribbean the effects of the global financial meltdown are being see...
03 April 2009
OECS should establish joint Regulator: G20 should help

OECS should establish joint Regulator: G20 should help


The members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) should move to establish immediately two separate bodies to reg...
20 March 2009
Establish a Caribbean wide financial services regulator

Establish a Caribbean wide financial services regulator


In my last commentary entitled “Tax Haven jurisdictions - Sitting Ducks and Scapegoats”, the point was made that British...