Commentary
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…