Beginning of An Endless Career Penning Paper and Fingering Tabs and Keyboards
Castries (The Voice): On April 1, 1976 I received a letter of appointment as Editor of The Crusader newspaper, starting of a career in reporting and journalism that’s continued for all of the 49 years since.
I’d been reading and contributing to The Crusader since my very-early forced retirement from sailing the world as a student and then as a world traveler -by sea.
Caribbean still in limbo after Rubio: hoping for the best and planning for the worst!
Castries (The Voice): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Caribbean tour drew all the attention the Trump administration wished for his three-nation stop in Jamaica, Guyana and Surinam last week, but he’s left the region in as much limbo as before his arrival.
Will the Caribbean tell the US Secretary of State where to jump off in Jamaica?
Castries (The Voice): History is overloaded with contradictions -like the case involving Washington’s latest war Cuba’s international contingent of doctors specialized in responding to emergencies caused by disasters and serious epidemics.
Measuring Caribbean Happiness with Global Yardsticks
Castries (The Voice): Last Thursday (March 20st) was observed as International Happiness Day -designated by the United Nations (UN) as a day when happy people everywhere celebrate their happiness.
CARICOM citizens must show opposition to US plan to kill Cuban medical care!
Castries (The Voice): Unbelievable but true, the Trump administration’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has declared all-out war on Cuba’s Henry Reeve international medical assistance program that’s been helping the world for the past two decades.
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.
