With only one more weekend to go before Election Day, it is just a matter of time before all the… Read More
It used to be said that the pen is mightier than the sword. It still is but today both have… Read More
Back in the first quarter of the 19th century, when Edmund Burke referred to the Reporters Gallery in the House… Read More
Much troubled water has flowed these past few weeks under the bridges linking the press and the public. The President… Read More
“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it will protect all of you.” When the flamboyant… Read More
Oh how things change when elections are approaching. Normally ‘okay’ people can suddenly become normally abnormal, saying what they don’t… Read More
Last week I had several reasons to be happy. The main one had me feeling honoured to be honoured. Another… Read More
Who is an Editor? And who is a Talk Show Host? And what does it take to be either? In… Read More
Eons ago, long before local IT-enhanced editors and announcers discovered what’s become their nearest mutual admiration club platform in the… Read More
Last year’s Scrooge of a Storm robbed us of Christmas. The STAR’s headline the next weekend described Christmas Eve night… Read More
It wasn’t unusual to read and hear and see confusion during the unexpected weather phenomenon that turned our white Xmas… Read More
Neither a hurricane, nor a storm, it didn’t even have a name. It was just rain, rain -- and more… Read More
Journalists the world over who had anything to do with anything about Nelson Mandela went into overdrive Thursday night after… Read More
Sometimes I can sound so intolerant of substandard journalism or reporting as to appear to think that everybody else always… Read More
Two articles I read at the beginning and the end of the past two weeks rubbed me both good and… Read More
Actually, I’m ‘off island’, half-a-world away from home, and two St. Lucians the same place I am, told me Thursday… Read More
Her name may hardly have rung a bell when she first hit the local TV screen—understandable, in a country where… Read More
Sometimes things happen that you can do nothing about, save to wish the reality was otherwise. I feel that way… Read More
Long Live Jon: the fruits of his loom are well planted in our national soil! A friend called early… Read More
Last Saturday evening, my friends and I were imbibing local spirits, savoring seafood delicacies in the yard outside my home… Read More
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