Opinion

Trump’s Trade War

On the 2016 campaign trail, candidate Trump railed against NAFTA as a “politician-made disaster” created by “a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism.”

Senior people being allowed to serve in gov’t while disobeying Integrity Commission law

Dear Editor, It has been revealed that a very large number of some very senior people holding very important public positions, including Ministers and Parliamentarians, have been allowed by our government to continue to serve while ignoring and disobeying the law which requires them to submit declarations of their assets and liabilities to the Integrity Commission.

Another dual citizen MP?

Dear Editor, Now that seven Members of Parliament—-three  PPP/C and four  APNU+AFC Coalition (excluding Charrandass Persaud) —-have voluntarily resigned due to the High Court and the Court of Appeal rulings on dual citizens being prohibited from sitting as parliamentarians, one wonders if there are others.

Region indebted to Maurice Bishop for recognition as `Zone of Peace’  

Dear Editor In this 40th anniversary year of the 1979 Grenada Revolution, the fates smiled upon our Caribbean Community (CARICOM) when it was confirmed  that the 22nd Regular Meeting of CARICOM’s Council For Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) would  be held in Grenada on the 13th and 14th of May 2019, thereby ensuring that the assembled Caribbean Foreign Ministers would find themselves in a space steeped in the spirit of Maurice Bishop — the great hero and martyr of the Grenada Revolution — and would therefore be impelled to take cognisance of Bishop’s signal contribution to the edifice of CARICOM’s collective Foreign Policy — the notion that  our Caribbean region should be legally constituted in International Law and universally respected as a “Zone of Peace”! 

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