No trade without help on Undeniable Climate Change
By GFBC Staff: The challenges that climate change poses to small states are not only overwhelming, they are impossible to be met from the scarce resources of the governments.
Category archives for:
Commentary
Don’t Burn Our Bridges: The Case for a single Caribbean Airline
By GFBC Staff:
“In a vibrant, working, single market and economy where there is a greater harmonization of regional and international policies than currently exist, the political directorate of the CARICOM member states must know for certain that it is not a hostage to external forces, for either political or economic reasons”.
Two percent to Haiti not enough
By GFBC Staff:
At the United Nations Donor Conference US$5.5 billion was pledged for Haiti. And, specifically, US$500 million was promised for a Haiti Reconstruction Fund. But, to date only US$97.5 million has been delivered to the World Bank as the agent for the Fund, with Brazil (US$55 million) and Norway ($31.2 million) delivering the greatest part.
Don’t blame the people for the Caribbean’s failures
BY GFBC Staff: the new Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persaud-Bissessar, declared publicly that her country was not an “ATM machine” from which other CARICOM countries could draw money as they want it.
Such statements would not endear Trinidad an
Owen Arthur – the Caribbean Commissioner the Region should have
By GFBC Staff: Owen Arthur, the former Prime Minister of Barbados, is probably one of the best Commissioners of a Caribbean Commission that the region does not have but ought to have.
The Politics of Leadership: Part III of Guyana and its Presidency
By GFBC Staff: Among the CARICOM countries that have a system similar to Britain’s is Trinidad and Tobago where, at recent general elections, a number of political parties agreed to form an alliance to contest constituencies against the incumbent governing party but not against each other.
The Politics of Leadership: Part 2 of Guyana and its Presidency By Sir Ronald Sanders
By GFBC Staff: Our weekly commentary by Sir Ronald Sanders
The politics of leadership: Guyana and it’s presidency
By GFBC Staff: However, in none of them are the uncertainties more pronounced that in Guyana, a sprawling 83,000 sq miles territory on the tip of the South American coast.
Caribbean Credibility at stake in IWC Vote
By GFBC Staff: Our Weekly Commentary by Sir Ronald Sanders
Photo Gallery
