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President Obama: The man unveiled
RONALD SANDERSThursday, January 31, 2013The speech may have been directed to a domestic United States audience, but in its boldness, its frankness and its inspirational quality, it was a speech to the...
View ArticleThe Caribbean after Chavez
RONALD SANDERSThursday, March 14, 2013Seventeen countries of the Caribbean face a heightened period of economic uncertainty now that Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has died.
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The Commonwealth Charter, Sri Lanka and human rights
RONALD SANDERSThursday, March 21, 2013The most important reason for the selection of a country as the host-venue for a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is that it serves the interests...
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Export-led growth: Who will lead? Part 2
RONALD SANDERSThursday, April 4, 2013Delisle Worrell, Governor of the Barbados Central Bank.Despite all the promises of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU), the...
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Supine and silent - The Caribbean in a vortex
RONALD SANDERSThursday, April 11, 2013How beneficial or not to the Caribbean is the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the 27-nation European Union (EU) as a bloc and the 15 small Caribbean...
View ArticleThe agony of Caribbean travel revisited
RONALD SANDERSThursday, May 2, 2013Concerns surrounding state-owned airlines in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries clearly exist amongst a wide cross section of the community.
View Article‘Brutal’ talks and US-Caribbean relationship
RONALD SANDERSThursday, June 6, 2013Much media coverage was given to the signing on May 28 in Trinidad of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) by US Vice President, Joseph Biden, and...
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Rethinking taxing tourism
RONALD SANDERSThursday, June 27, 2013Are governments in the Caribbean killing the goose that lays the golden egg?
View ArticleCaricom at 40: An alternative agenda
RONALD SANDERSThursday, July 11, 2013By the time this commentary is read, heads of government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) will have celebrated the 40th anniversary...
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Toward a new Venezuela Caribbean relationship
Since 2005 when the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez introduced the Petrocaribe initiative, several Caribbean governments have enjoyed a vital life line. But the time may have come to review the...
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Importing food is damaging the Caribbean: Why no action?
It is shameful that golden opportunities to produce more food in the Caribbean and significantly reduce the astronomically high annual food import bill of US$4.75 billion are being woefully neglected....
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How to turn a business around
I just bought a well-established, well-known brand in Ireland. Though the company has been around for 40 years, for various reasons it is no longer making a profit and turnover has collapsed. However,...
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Inadequate response to Ebola should not be repeated with chickungunya
The good news is that a prophylactic vaccine against chickungunya, developed by the Austrian biotech company Themis Bioscience GmbH, is reported to induce a significant neutralising immune response to...
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The St Kitts-Nevis election fiasco is a symptom of a bigger problem
Concern was rightly raised over the failure of the supervisor of elections in St Kitts-Nevis, Wingrove George, to declare the results of the February 16 general elections until two days...
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Celebrate the CCJ and empower it!
In just over a month—on April 16, 2015—the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will mark the 10th anniversary of its inauguration. The creation of the CCJ is arguably the single most important event in...
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Lee Kuan-Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth
Lee Kuan-Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island with virtually no natural...
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