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Leaders serve
The ultimate goal of this weekly column is to domesticate leadership – that is, to remove the ambiguity and misconceptions which surround this topic and to empower all to recognize that within ourselves, dwells many of the leadership qualities necessary to change our world for the better. Let’s face it, our world needs some major […]
Lessons from the 2018 Grenada election
In May 2016, I had the honour of introducing Dr The Right Hon. Keith Mitchell, prime minister of Grenada as the feature speaker at the annual Worrell Lecture at the University of the West Indies. In my introduction, I underscored the point that in every age only a tiny percentage of individuals stood out by […]
First-past-the-post and electoral competition
There is an emerging narrative within and outside of Grenada (particularly on social media) which seems to suggest that Grenadians intentionally voted to engineer an electoral outcome that guaranteed the absence of a parliamentary opposition. As a Grenadian and a political scientist I reject that view. As is the case with every Commonwealth Caribbean country, […]
More relief
The Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation today announced over US$290,000 in funding to projects that will improve the lives of children in areas of the Caribbean impacted by last year’s hurricanes. This follows the Foundation’s initial US$100,000 donation to ShelterBox for relief efforts after the hurricanes, as well as a clean-up of the CHANCES children’s […]
Preventative self care
What is preventative self-care? It is simply all the things we do to keep ourselves at our best. All the things we do to prevent a health concern from getting worse. So, it would include the interventions to make sure the work doesn’t madden us or maybe give us a stroke, and the lifestyle and […]
Forging closer ties
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is seeking to forge closer ties between the Caribbean and Latin America. During a working meeting here last week with Argentina’s resident ambassador Gustavo Martinez Pandiani, CDB President Warren Smith underscored the importance of regional cooperation. He explained that the CDB, as a regional financial institution, was currently transitioning from […]
An open letter to Professor Beckles
Dear Prof. Beckles, I must admit that I find myself with a firestorm of feelings in my belly as I begin this letter. I have vehemently defended the University of the West Indies (UWI) as a philosophy and an institution. Although I am known inside the university for my long letters about matters of concern […]
The ‘Hypocritic’ Oath
The human memory is a fascinating entity. I am told that the brain is able to store 2.5 million gigabytes of information, which equates to three million hours of TV programme storage. As amazing as the brain is, I cannot comprehend such. I am also fascinated by the fact that we have the ability to […]
Working partnership
Acting Chief Labour Officer Victor Felix has showered praise on Barbadian workers, who journeyed from the tropics to brave extremely frigid temperatures on Canadian farms to provide for themselves and their families back home. Felix was speaking during a presentation of long-service awards to those workers who were unable to attend the opening ceremony for […]
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