Recently the Minister of Education, Shawn Edward, alluded to a systematic crisis, when he stressed upon an audience of scholars that he was worried and needed to see more young men in the room and on ...

Onstage with him were a dozen or so young men and women in red shirts and black pants. By his own account, they are his most trusted constituents. He described as “unusual” their meeting on a recent ...

For all right judgment of any man or thing,” observed Thomas Carlyle, “it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing his bad.” George Odlum was a politician, and for most ...

During this week, there has been much ado and debate both in and outside of the House of Parliament, about the Amendments to the Child Justice Act. In this Amendment, s.54 of the principal Act i.e., ...

If only for a few of us, there is an associated perverse pleasure in the sound of politicians pretending to toss smart stink bombs at one another. Self-convinced they alone know they’re aiming at the ...

This article is a synopsis of the social architecture that keeps us divided. It is not intended to indict any person, institution or family. It is an historical fact that after the abolition of ...

There are among us persons who consider the Privy Council a relic of our colonial past. They suggest those of us who wish for its retention as our final court of appeal are old-fashioned, out of synch ...

Former WICB (now Cricket West Indies) president Mr. Julian R. Hunte. At the time of assuming the office of the President of the West Indies Cricket Board on July 29, 2007 the West Indies Cricket Team ...

A dear friend of mine is deeply interested in the epistemological underpinnings of and the definition of truth, but what is more commonly understood as “the art of lying”. This preoccupation may stem ...

11 August 2026, another session of Parliament… “Nothing of importance to be seen there” appears the prevailing attitude of my family and close associates. But curiosity continues to drag me back, ...

DPP Daasrean Greene, left, and Special Prosecutor Robert Innocent. Will they deliver on government’s promises in 2024? (Photo of Robert Innocent courtesy of Bill Mortley, subject to copyright, not to ...

The recently concluded General Election, which delivered a decisive 16–1 victory to the Saint Lucia Labour Party over the United Workers Party, stands as one of the most significant electoral outcomes ...