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I am heading out to lunch on a typically glorious June Friday in California when my office phone starts to ring. Should I answer? A colleague at Weider Publications thinks I should. All week I’ve been waiting to hear from … Continue reading
To compare the so-called “leader of the free world” with the leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party may well be an absurdity beyond measure. Which is not to say there aren’t certain principles equally applicable in their respective circumstances. … Continue reading
Last Saturday evening, my friends and I were imbibing local spirits, savoring seafood delicacies in the yard outside my home and listening to a Whitney Houston album that one of my sons had put on to test the new computerized … Continue reading
It has happened again! Another no show by a foreign artiste who was scheduled to perform here and once again questions are being asked as to who is to blame—the performer or the promoter. Last Saturday a scheduled performance by … Continue reading
We use the word love in many ways: to describe the attraction between two individuals, to describe the physical sexual act between two individuals, to describe the bond between the mother and the father and their child, or to describe … Continue reading
The “En Rouge” euphoria that swept the St Lucia Labour Party to victory at the November 28, 2011 general election has been overtaken by the practicality and reality of governance. It is clear that the advent of 24/7 television availability … Continue reading
They must love our prime minister in Jamaica. At any rate, judging by their invitations to deliver keynote addresses before their most august bodies. Doubtless Saint Lucians will easily recall Kenny Anthony’s speech before a graduating class at Norman Manley … Continue reading
I’m definitely not at war with the President of the St Lucia Manufacturers Association (SLMA). That’s why I made it absolutely clear and up front in my previous article “Which China Syndrome” (published last Saturday) that it was not a … Continue reading
Adultery is the world’s greatest wrecker of wives, lives, and families, yet one never hears anyone calling upon the State to make it illegal, and rid the society of its number one foe. In God’s Ten Commandments to us, it … Continue reading
What a welcome change, to have good reason to begin this column on a positive note, by which I refer to the recent announcement from the prime minister’s office that the government has made good on its campaign promise of … Continue reading
