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Three years ago today most people would have bet that Richard Frederick was going down. Less than a year after the December 2006 victory that put Flambeau back in office, Frederick was practically on the political chopping block. He was arrested, under investigation for Customs fraud and word was that the real powers within the [...]
Rape, love, abortion, domestic violence and top it off all with the consequences of being trapped in a black skin—it’s the black woman’s burden. Ever since Eve took the first bite of the apple, black women have been maligned and blamed for everything that is wrong with the world by—who else—the men they love.
Last weekend, [...]
If Flambeau leaders thought last December’s anniversary rally was something, Soufriere had more surprises in store for them.
Two Sundays ago, ruling party supporters showed up in the thousands for a pre-convention rally meant to test the waters as the government gears up for the next election. And Prime Minister Stephenson King noticed that a large [...]
What is wrong with this country is that too few people have too much and too many have too little.”
Yeah, yeah. But how to fix it? That’s the question. Everybody knows what the problem is, but ask for solutions and all you get is platitudes.
It could have been a Labour platform in 1997 or a [...]
Anyone could have predicted that Taiwanese Ambassador Tom Chou would not let it slide. Last week’s allegation in the STAR newspaper that Taiwanese agricultural aid had redounded more to the aid of the government than of farmers themselves was part of an article about white elephants and the government’s failure to actually achieve anything.
By the [...]
The city needs a change and not just a cosmetic change on the surface but a change that goes right to the culture of the people. You need to inspire the people to begin the transformation of the city. We spend too much time on the infrastructure rather than empowering the people to improve the [...]
Governments suffer from a general malaise.
The Reagan era was defined by a kind of contemptuous trickle down economic theory that gave to the rich in the hopes that the poor might get some. The Clinton era was characterized by increasingly reckless prosperity and the Bush era by war.
Governments, like people, are prone to different illnesses [...]
The war between the former commissioner of police and the government that sacked him is between battles, but it is far from over.
Former police commissioner Ausbert Regis is still on sick leave months after being transferred from the top post in the police department to the newly created post of director of special initiatives. Ever [...]
Stand by your man, the song says. And that’s what they do. No one really understands why, but it’s a natural fact of life that most political spouses can endure what most normal women in their right minds would never forgive.
Throughout political history, spouses have been forced (or have chosen) to eat the dirt that [...]
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you have to choose one, choose character.” Gus Small was speaking at the Alvina Reynolds’ first constituency branch meeting. He was speaking to Labour’s leader Kenny Anthony. Small was implying that Kenny had character. But in Labour’s broken heart, yearning for the days when their government [...]
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