Independence in Dependence: Towards Better Life On A Shared Planet!
Castries (The Voice): As Saint Lucia observes its 46th Independence Day tomorrow, the mix of fun and glit, pomp and ceremony promises to be better than ever, as the Philip J. Pierre administration starts another new year demonstrating how different it continues to be vis-à-vis all previous administrations since the national flag was first raised on February 22nd 1979.
Independence in Dependence: Agendas for Republicanism
Castries (The Voice): Saint Lucia’s 46th Independence Anniversary holiday weekend will again feature citizens and guests observing the usual and traditional high points of the military parade, announcement of national awards, fish and food festivals and the dozens of related activities planned for the first annual celebration of nationhood following the various explosions of different manifestations of National Pride after the island became home to The Fastest Woman on Planet Earth.
Independence in Dependence: The beginning of the end (I)
Castries (The Voice): It’s that time of the year for another observance of the date on which Saint Lucia moved from a British Associated State to an Independent nation, severing its direct colonial ties with London, ending a long era of total dependence on the UK and starting a new era of genuine independence.
US Actions Against Cuba Underline Need for ‘Operation Truth’ in the Global South
Castries (The Voice): When the outgoing Biden administration announced -in its last hours- it was removing Cuba from Washington’s list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism’, international diplomatic and political observers not only smelt a rat, but also saw the big trap in the teasing slab of cheese being laid at the incoming president’s door.
Trump’s Second Coming and the Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America (III)
Castries (The Voice): In less than a week, the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, like the rest of the world, has come to see enough of the interlocking relationships between the 2nd Trump administration and the former Biden administration in terms of how they see America’s global role in the 21st Century.
Trump’s Second Coming and The Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America: Part 2
Castries (The Voice): Governments and people the-world-over are still nursing hangovers, or hanging-on to high hopes, as they come to grips with the return of the predictably unpredictable Donald Trump to the US Presidency.
Trump’s Second Coming and The Duopoly of Bipartisan Hegemony in America
Castries (The Voice): A baited world waited with bated breath, expecting the inauguration of the 47th US President on Monday (January 20) to show and tell how he intends to Make America Great Again (MAGA) and rule the world.
US presidents playing poker with Cuban lives
Castries (The Voice): The announcement by the US State Department -less than a week before leaving office- that it’s lifting the designation of Cuba as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’, while welcome, would have been even-much-better news four years ago.
Caribbean Delegates call on UN to Condemn Violation of its Charter
Castries (The Voice): Caribbean delegates attending the closing forum of a new international entity established to expose and fight emerging fascist tendencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region, are calling on the United Nations (UN) to condemn the decision by a powerful member-state to issue a bounty on the head of a head-of-state of a fellow member-state.
Caribbean Delegates call on UN to Condemn Violation of its Charter
Castries (The Voice): Caribbean delegates attending the closing forum of a new international entity established to expose and fight emerging fascist tendencies in the Latin American and Caribbean region, are calling on the United Nations (UN) to condemn the decision by a powerful member-state to issue a bounty on the head of a head-of-state of a fellow member-state.
