I have been persuaded to write this piece to correct any lingering misconceptions about my role as Minister for Agriculture …
Agriculture: No Escaping It
Parallel Worlds PART 3 – Climate Change
‘The Media is to be encouraged in its quest for information and in its challenges of government policy, as it …
Liberated Africans
SOME months ago I had a very informative discussion with Ronald “Boo” Hinkson, who has in my view a remarkable …
Kenny and the Politics of Division
THE EDITOR: SO last week Kenny Anthony announced after 20 years as Political Leader of the SLP and 15 years …
The More Things Change – PART TWO
By Nahdjla Bailey CONTINUING Claudia Johnson’s address of 1980, not 1990 (see note at end), entitled ‘’An Education for Civilized …
Elections Timeframe Revisited
THE EDITOR: Subsequent to the original date of June 21, 2016 for the general elections, the SLP administration has now …
Why a Snap Election?
THE EDITOR: Everyone is now predicting the PM will call a June election. The signs are everywhere, non-stop Labour ads, …
Dollars, Cents And Commonsense
IN just a few days, the House of Assembly will be brimming with numbers: seventeen men and women debating the …
Preserving History Through Building Conservation
WHAT is the most picturesque and most photographed part of Castries? I will make a guess and say it’s lower …
The CCC Is UUUsless
AM I terrible for reaching to the point where I am “sorta, kinda” wishing for a visitor to fall or …
No Quick Fix In Haiti
(THE writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US and the OAS. The views expressed are his own) Peace …
The More Things Change….
A couple of (unusually) unequivocal VOICE editorials in March really caught my attention and made me think, ‘Plus ça change…’ …
Parallel Worlds–Part Two: CRIME
CRIME is on our minds. Recently, I met someone who had apparently spent much of his adult life in and …
The Cold Truth About Polite Racism
IS that what it is – “truth on ice”? The online platform, QUORA, describes polite racism as “racist insinuation delivered …
When Substance Begins
I HAVE asked myself when substance will begin to be poured out by our political parties here in Saint Lucia. …
When Will Chastanet Get It Right?
By Stephen Lester Prescot WHEN first I heard he had penned a letter to the President of the Saint Lucia …
Debunking Anti-Chastanet Fallacy
EXPOSING a fallacious argument ought to bear no relationship to the origin or presenter of the argument. The application of …
Rumblings of a Nation – The Forensic Laboratory
PART TWO. THIS week’s comments are on the inescapable tension between emotion and reality in reopening the forensic laboratory. No …
Local Media on Brink of Extinction?
WHY do I have this niggling feeling that I should be watching my back because I can feel the laser …
The Lessons Of Panama And Its Papers
THE names of persons implicated in the leak of the so-called “Panama papers” on April 3 reads like a who’s …