By Lincoln DePradine Dr Keith Mitchell, the former Grenada Prime Minister who had indicated that the 2022 election campaign was his final as he prepared to close the door on politics, is showing no sign of leaving anytime soon, but could face a challenge to his leadership stranglehold on the opposition New National Party (NNP). […]
In 2020, Adichie’s 2006 novel Half Of A Yellow Sun was voted the best book to have won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history. In a lecture on freedom of speech, the writer said young people were growing up “afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions”. Such a […]
By David Jessop Middle-ranking powers are emerging as important policy arbiters. They are seeking global outcomes that better respond to their own interests as China and the US become the dominant global economic actors, each offering competing approaches to development. This will not just further reorder the post-cold-war world but will make the Caribbean’s regional […]
Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who seemed to have taken the vow of silence when it comes to commenting on political matters, must be tempted to speak out on Premier Ford’s plans to build houses on the Greenbelt. It was McGuinty, then premier in 2005, who passed a law to protect 800,000 hectares of what […]
The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor’s pivotal role in slavery. Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, recently travelled to the Caribbean island for a private meeting with the country’s prime minister, Mia Mottley. A report is now before Mottley’s […]
If you reach for the ice cream scoop every time things get tough, you’re not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, 38 percent of adults admit that they’ve overeaten or eaten unhealthily because of stress. Just about half of them regretted it later. But the first thing you need to know about emotional eating […]
By Carlton Joseph A couple of weeks ago President Joe Biden invited the leaders of 49 African nations in Washington for the second US-African Leaders’ Summit. Vice President, Kamala Harris opened the meeting making the case that the continent’s demographics will inevitably lead it to become a key global player in the decades to come […]
It is safe to say that even though the dreaded COVID is still hanging around and continue to menace the people of the world, 2022 was a psychological improvement over the two previous years. Somehow most managed to get closer to a normal life, banishing COVID from their thoughts…more or less. Still, the year was […]
It was supposed to be a program to help Black federal civil servants suffering from the trauma and stress of racism — but it was itself hit by allegations of racism before it even began. Black federal civil servants who are developing a mental health action plan for their colleagues say they’re facing anti-Black racism from senior government […]
After two miserable years of isolation, masking, dodging the Corona virus, this Christmas was long in coming and is welcomed with open arms. Even the Grinches and Scrooges grudgingly nod their heads and let Christmas in. Let’s face it, isolation and Christmas are mortal enemies; one can’t function if the other is around. While the […]
