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As I, Turn Up The Collar On My Favorite Winter Coat This Wind Is Blowin’ My Mind I See The Kids In The Street With Not Enough To Eat Who Am I, To Be Blind? Pretending Not To See Their Needs… I WOULD like to apologise first of all, for the very personal tone of […]

Life is never a straightforward process and even in the period of euphoria as neoliberal policies dominated economic thinking in the past decades one still has to be prepared for unusually bad weather.

– COULD GOOD INTENT PREVAIL?Barbados’ Errol Barrow and Guyana’s Forbes Burnham belonged to an exclusive club as students in London – the West Indian Students Union in London, and this bond conjoined in a movement that precipitated the CARIFTA Agreement of 1965.

As I, Turn Up The Collar On  My Favorite Winter Coat  This Wind Is Blowin’ My Mind  I See The Kids In The Street  With Not Enough To Eat  Who Am I, To Be Blind?  Pretending Not To See Their Needs…

CARICOM HEADS of government have invoked a new dimension to their policy of engagement with “high-level guests” invited “for exchange of views” during their regular annual summit.

VENEZUELA’S president, Hugo Chavez, has declared that any attack on his country’s embassy in Honduras will lead to war between the two nations, and I can’t help wishing that the Hondurans would call his bluff. The Venezuelan blowhard is getting tiresome.

Perspectives ‘Political self-interest, not the people’s interests, is marring the political and developmental life of this nation; the constant humbug of unscrupulous demands for changes in electoral rules and systems; the relentless and selfish haggling over shared governance; the predictable election writs; unyielding bickering over constitutional reform; media distortions; the race card; and yes! The

Friday Musings Two major changes in ‘globalization’ logistics have hit the deck. Globalization has become a fashion contest; and to be in it is to be ‘hip’. Globalization is no longer a standalone operation; Globalization has become wedded to economic integration, not political and social integration. I AM sure there will be a lot of

The World Trade Organization (WTO) exploits globalization solely to the advantage of the developed world; globalization has fast become the principal ‘exploitation’ instrument of the WTO. And of course, we can speak of globalization as an external shock, bringing the following: increasing pressures to liberalize multilateral trade; the economic stranglehold that the World Trade Organization