As
Valentine’s Day slowly fades from the twilight of memory,
romance as precious of human species’ existence should
be reflected on. It was the famous psychologist,
Sigmund Freud, along with others, who declared that love and
work were the two greatest challenges of human existence.
For most humans, romantic love is the bloom of human life.
Over
the last few weeks we have witnessed a form of politics that
has left many people baffled as to what is going on in our
beloved island. For my part I see it as the norm
as far as politics is concerned. A form of wheeling and dealing
that takes place in all political parties.
After
Trinidad I returned to the rock to discover it was filled
with incoherent chatter on the gift- giving of red envelopes.
To hear St. Lucians tell it one could be forgiven
for thinking that the country had suffered the gravest insults
to its pride and dignity. I got to find out after I was approached
by a dim wit waving the red envelope rhetoric. Having just
returned I was at a loss,
In
the years that I have been writing a widely published weekly
commentary, I have never received as many responses as I did
to my commentary last week on Barack Obama’s quest for
the White House. I concluded in that commentary that,
despite his vision and the wide appeal of his message, he
would not succeed in occupying The White House, .
“An
Appeal court should be reflective of the social values of
the society it serves. An
Appeal court distant and separated from the society it serves
performs only part of its function in distilling the law.
Privy Council has served us well, but it is now no longer
appropriate to our needs as a mature, evolving society…”
Michael Gordon, Q.C, former Court of Appeal judge.
The
Taiwan recognition miscalculation soon became obvious. Taiwanese
engage in Salvation Army diplomacy. Their agents
stand on street corners and in alleyways and hand out tokens.
Trinkets, someone once dismissively wrote. Brags, a voice
recently added. There was no chance of recouping from their
vaults in Taipei, the foregone $104 million, in less than
ten years.
As
Valentine’s Day slowly fades from the twilight of memory,
romance as precious of human species’ existence should
be reflected on. It was the famous psychologist,
Sigmund Freud, along with others, who declared that love and
work were the two greatest challenges of human existence.
For most humans, romantic love is the bloom of human life.
Over
the last few weeks we have witnessed a form of politics that
has left many people baffled as to what is going on in our
beloved island. For my part I see it as the norm
as far as politics is concerned. A form of wheeling and dealing
that takes place in all political parties. 
In
the years that I have been writing a widely published weekly
commentary, I have never received as many responses as I did
to my commentary last week on Barack Obama’s quest for
the White House. I concluded in that commentary that,
despite his vision and the wide appeal of his message, he
would not succeed in occupying The White House, .
“An
Appeal court should be reflective of the social values of
the society it serves. An
Appeal court distant and separated from the society it serves
performs only part of its function in distilling the law.
Privy Council has served us well, but it is now no longer
appropriate to our needs as a mature, evolving society…”
Michael Gordon, Q.C, former Court of Appeal judge.
The
Taiwan recognition miscalculation soon became obvious. Taiwanese
engage in Salvation Army diplomacy. Their agents
stand on street corners and in alleyways and hand out tokens.
Trinkets, someone once dismissively wrote. Brags, a voice
recently added. There was no chance of recouping from their
vaults in Taipei, the foregone $104 million, in less than
ten years. 
