Commentary
My communist breakfast
October 10, 2011 | Comments: 43A cup of tea, some sugar to sweeten it and a leader who appears to be excavating the bones of Hitler himself. Now while I have no interest in politics it is getting ...
The call for reviewing Dominica’s Constitution – The context
October 7, 2011 | Comments: 18On Thursday September 15th 2011 a “very powerful” message was delivered at the Harlem Plaza in Newtown. At one of the “peoples’ gathering” a former Prime ...
Disqualification simplicity at the watershed
October 5, 2011 | Comments: 165Before the long, tortured journey of trying to determine the lawful constitution of the Parliament of Dominica following the 2009 general election, Roosevelt ...
Haiti needs us now
September 29, 2011 | Comments: 7“We may have come on different ships, but we are all in the same boat”. That is a most picturesque and succulent saying for which the Rev. Dr. Jesse Jackson has ...
Commentary: The United Nations – When clowns come matching in
September 27, 2011 | Comments: 32Send in the clowns. Perma-pressed costumes, bright smiles, amusing and rosy cheeks and eyes that sparkle in the light. Let’s make a laughing stock against the ...
COMMENTARY: We are rapidly growing more and apathetic to evil in our midst
September 26, 2011 | Comments: 22“We are rapidly growing more and apathetic to evil in our midst.” This line was pinched from the speech delivered by the Bishop Gabriel Malzaire during the ...
COMMENTARY: Women’s soccer in US lacks diversity
September 25, 2011 | Comments: 7The beginning of organized Women’s soccer in the US in the late 1970’s was partly due an outgrowth of the 1972 legislation mandating gender equity in education. ...
Palestinians decide to stop missing opportunities
September 24, 2011 | Comments: 34After six decades of war and uneasy truce, uncertainty and unsettlement, uncomfortable and uneasy relations with their equally uneasy neighbour, intifadas and ...
Caricom cements ties with Turkey
September 24, 2011 | Comments: 2(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Government of Turkey has moved to strengthen relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and to ...
Chavez throws support behind Palestinian state
September 22, 2011 | Comments: 12Editor’s Note: Palestinian officials have launched a campaign to join the United Nations as a full member state. They are asking for international recognition ...
COMMENTARY: Only China can save Europe
September 19, 2011 | Comments: 14The European crisis that you’ve been reading about in the paper is worth watching carefully. In fact, it has now morphed into something much bigger than a ...
COMMENTARY: The Chinese aid question: Chicken Chow Mein or Peking Duck?
September 12, 2011 | Comments: 38Many of you may not remember this, but at the height of US expansionism and communist containment 90 percent of US foreign aid went to US citizens and companies ...
I blame the church
September 10, 2011 | Comments: 92When those who do evil use God’s name in their evil schemes, I blame the church When people praise the goodness of God when their evil schemes succeed, I blame ...
COMMENTARY: Dominican Ambition – reversing dependency trends by engaging emerging markets
September 6, 2011 | Comments: 19Transformational leadership involves empowering, stimulating, and motivating individuals to optimize their performance whilst encouraging and seeking to instill in ...
COMMENTARY: It’s the economy people, not politics
September 5, 2011 | Comments: 40On June 29th 2011, the Prime Minister of Dominica presented a national budget of $432.5-million in parliament. Without much deliberation from members of cabinet the ...