WASHINGTON, DC – Amid the current turmoil in the world, it is important that, in the Americas, we should not forget the urgent humanitarian and political crisis confronting the Haitian people.

WASHINGTON, DC – When Marco Rubio arrived in St. Kitts to address the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, he did so only hours after attending President Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington. The speech ended late. Before dawn, he was on his way to the Caribbean. That matters.

Relationships are like the four seasons, Spring, Summer Autumn, Winter. Men are April when they woo, courting, for they are fresh, with a spring in their step, full of lyrics, life and lies.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - With the unfolding events in the Middle East, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s recent speech on middle powers takes on a new relevance: how should countries that are not one of the world’s superpowers best navigate, prosper, and keep themselves – to paraphrase Carney – “at the table, so they are not on the menu?”

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua - The last  12 months have been an education. Not in what we hoped, but in what we should have known. We watched the Trump administration assert “America First” with a bluntness that left no room for ambiguity.

WASHINGTON, DC - February 7 matters in Haiti—not because it promises relief, but because it marks the end of an illusion. On that date, the mandate of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council expires. From its inception, the Council was never embraced by the Haitian people. It was widely seen as a nine-headed contraption—unwieldy, inward-looking, and vulnerable to rivalry, corruption, and personal ambition. Haitians warned that it would fail. They were right.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 5, CMC – It is a mistake to believe that the war in Iran and the retaliatory actions in the Gulf are too far away to matter to the Caribbean. The fallout is already reaching the region, pushing up the costs of fuel, freight, and everyday goods across the region. For import-dependent economies, this instability brings higher prices, greater fiscal strain, and added vulnerability for those least able to absorb shocks.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Professor Justin Robinson of UWI Five Isles has issued a courageous clarion call in his widely circulated article “No One is Coming to Save Us”. He is right – no one is coming to save us. When our Prophet Bob Marley warned us in Real Situation, to“..check out the real situation/nation war against nation.. well it seems like total destruction, the only solution/And there ain’t no use – nobody can stop them now”

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A year like 2025 rarely hands us a single turning point. It hands us a pattern.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua –  On August 1, 2023, I assumed the role of Campus Principal at The University of the West Indies Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda, determined to make real the Vice Chancellor’s call for UWI to be an activist university.

WASHINGTON, DC - If U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accepts the invitation to attend the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St Kitts and Nevis from 25 to 27 February, his presence should be treated as consequential.

WASHINGTON, DC – When the door to migration narrows, the long-standing mismatch between education and economic absorption is no longer abstract; a country’s true immigration policy becomes domestic — how many jobs it can create, and how quickly it can match people to them.