Commentary

Vendors clean a street before starting to sell their goods in the Petion-ville neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
December 9, 2025

Ronald Sanders | Haiti cannot wait

On September 10, all 32 active member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) signed a joint statement on Haiti. As often happens in diplomacy, not every member state participated in the…
In this 2019 photo, revellers celebrate as fireworks explode over the Metropolitan Cathedral after then president Andrés Manuel López Obrador gave the annual independence shout from the balcony of the National Palace to kick off Independence Day celebrat
December 9, 2025

Cecilia Barros Ruiz | Mexican independence – celebrating the spirit of Grito de Dolores

EVERY YEAR across the world the ‘Grito de Dolores’ is re-enacted on the eve of Mexico’s Independence Day. The CCXV Anniversary of the Independence of Mexico on September 16, is of the utmost value…
December 9, 2025

SSP Diaries | The matter of reparations

IN SCHOOL, we learnt of our discovery and subsequent colonisation by a number of European nations, the chief of which was the British. Caribbean history, as explained, then chronicled the escapades of…