Real realistic international relations
Opinion August 8, 2018 | 4:01 pm
By Manuel Armenteros It is no easy task to be brief on issues pertaining to international relations, but I will try my best. It's hard to delineate the world stage without taking into account cruci[...]Responding to changing attitudes to migration
Opinion July 27, 2018 | 1:32 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Around the world, migration is redefining domestic and social policy, polarising [...]Brexit, the Caribbean and British politics
Opinion July 20, 2018 | 12:17 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor The word ‘cakeism’ has yet to appear in the Oxford English[...]Finding ways to reimagine CARICOM
Opinion July 13, 2018 | 12:01 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Most politicians connect with their electorate, but few have the capacity or charisma to be able to encapsulate com[...]Bolstering the resilience of Latin American and Caribbean societies, Key to implementing the 2030 Agenda
Opinion July 11, 2018 | 4:09 pm
By Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC The High-level Political Forum being held at the United Nations' headquarters in New York, from July 9 to 18, encourages member countries to present[...]Bringing inter-island travel into the twenty-first century
Opinion July 6, 2018 | 12:35 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Addressing the opening session of the just concluded CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Montego Bay, both Mia M[...]Libertarian varieties
Opinion July 2, 2018 | 2:41 pm
By Manuel Armenteros “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, [...]Time for honesty about the future of the CSME
Opinion June 29, 2018 | 1:56 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor In the coming days, CARICOM Heads of Gover[...]Liberal word use
Opinion June 25, 2018 | 7:45 pm
By Manuel Armenteros Democracy is important, fascism is bad, and liberalization of the economy leads to prosperity for everybody. These are phrases that are heard often and seldom challenged becaus[...]Future proofing the Caribbean
Opinion June 22, 2018 | 12:58 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor If like me, you listen regularly to the BBC World Service, you[...]Simple Freedom
Opinion June 18, 2018 | 1:29 pm
By Manuel Armenteros What is freedom? It’s an innocent looking question, but it is not a trivial thing to give a comprehensive response to it. One thing that is almost practically un-objectionabl[...]The disturbing consequences of the G7 summit
Opinion June 15, 2018 | 1:26 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor It is the images that remain. First it was a photo of the pol[...]The problem with nationalism
Opinion June 12, 2018 | 2:55 pm
By Manuel Armenteros Nationalism is a strange phenomenon. People are asked to be proud of something they did not do, in return for acceptance in a group they did not choose. To be sure, one may [...]The new dimensions of tourism
Opinion June 8, 2018 | 1:28 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed distributor In a week in which Caribbean tourism leaders have been meeting in New York to bui[...]The hidden cost of not complying with EU data regulations
Opinion June 1, 2018 | 12:41 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Normally the private sector tends to respond to change far faster than the public sector. This is because it is bot[...]Why I fight for protecting immigrant students and the future of the nation
Opinion May 25, 2018 | 3:45 pm
By Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) We recently recognized the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that separate meant unequal, ruling agains[...]Cuba the EU and a post-Cotonou agreement
Opinion May 25, 2018 | 12:48 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Just over a week ago, Cuba and the European Union held a firs[...]China’s rapidly advancing Caribbean role
Opinion May 18, 2018 | 12:59 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor For some years now, China has sought to deepen its relations [...]The future cost of Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
Opinion May 11, 2018 | 1:56 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor At first sight, last week’s decision by the US President to abrogate the hard-[...]The overseas territories – the long view
Opinion May 4, 2018 | 12:35 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor A few days ago, the British Parliament voted to compel Britain’s overseas territories (OTs) in the Caribbean to adopt public registers of[...]
