Commentary

Dr. M. Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe, CD, JP, BA, M.Sc., DBE (h.c.), Chairman of Manpower & Maintenance Services (MMS) Limited Group
December 12, 2025

Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa: Infrastructure and systems impact public health and safety

The mention of infrastructure typically conjures up thoughts of buildings, bridges, roadways and other facilities. However, infrastructure and systems in public health refer to essential services and…
Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, environmentalist, activist, university professor, and writer.
December 12, 2025

Wayne Kublalsingh | Decoding Tobago radar

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, her ministers and her defenders are involved in a fantastic and unconvincing attempt to deceive the public. Why have the Americans deployed their flotilla,…
West Indies’ Justin Greaves (right) celebrates with teammate Kemar Roach (centre) after scoring 200 runs against New Zealand on day five of their cricket Test match in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday.
December 11, 2025

Editorial | What the West Indies’ Test team really lacks

Roston Chase, the captain of the West Indies’ Test team, is right that the Caribbean’s cricket infrastructure lags behind what’s available to most of the region’s international counterparts. While…
Mangled metal frame of Black River Market after Hurricane Melissa on October 28, 2025
December 11, 2025

Seya Wilson | Hurricane Melissa and the climate future we cannot ignore

Hurricanes of Melissa’s intensity are not meant to appear with such frequency, nor develop such destructive force just moments before landfall. Yet here we are, facing the climate reality scientists…
The SSP Diaries
December 11, 2025

SSP Diaries | Setting the stage for global destruction ­– Part 1

IN TODAY’S world many of us are losing sight of the fact that modern conflicts have negative impacts upon our own well-being and make it even more difficult for small island developing states to…
Dr. M. Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe, CD, JP, BA, M.Sc., DBE (h.c.), Chairman of Manpower & Maintenance Services (MMS) Limited Group
December 11, 2025

Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe | After Hurricane Melissa: Environmental impact on public health and safety

After the hurricane, the environment is impacted by flooding, erosion, and contamination from sewage, dead animals, debris, agricultural waste and chemical substances. The effect is already being…
Dr Godwin Friday
December 10, 2025

Editorial | PM Godwin Friday’s error

Godwin Friday’s government in St Vincent and the Grenadines is off to an unfortunate start. It has stumbled badly on its first significant ethical test. Dr Friday is allowing Kishore Shallow, the…
US President Donald Trump (right) and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
December 10, 2025

Norris R. McDonald | Trump, Hegseth, and US hegemony: Blood in our waters

ON DECEMBER 4, the US Senate and Congress launched investigations into a horrific incident where unarmed fishermen, survivors of an American airstrike, were later deliberately targeted and killed…
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December 10, 2025

Elizabeth Morgan | US National Security Strategy – modernising the Monroe Doctrine

AS THERE remains concern about US military activities in the southern Caribbean in which, so far, 86 people have been killed in US military strikes on small boats, it came to attention that the 2025…