Caution urged in landfill litigation with Lajun Corp.
Opinion May 1, 2018 | 6:03 pm
Statement by Fernando González, President of the Roundtable of Commonwealth Countries in the Dominican Republic on the litigation between the country and the Lajun Corp. "Lajun's local administrat[...]Sanctions and the law of uninteded consequences
Opinion April 27, 2018 | 12:38 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor The problem with the use of trade sanctions is that the innocent get hurt[...]The Windrush generation
Opinion April 20, 2018 | 12:41 pm
The View from Europe By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor For years now, Caribbean High Commissioners, activists, church organisations and community oriented Caribbean compa[...]Brexit’s many imponderables
Opinion April 13, 2018 | 3:32 pm
The View from Europe Many months have passed since this column last addressed the issue of Brexit and what it may mean for the Caribbean and its long-standing relationship with the[...]The implications of a divisive Summit of the Americas
Opinion April 6, 2018 | 1:06 pm
The View from Europe In just over a week’s time the Summit of the Americas will take place in Lima, Peru. It will likely illustrate just how divided the hemisphere has become. Since the last s[...]The new masters of the universe
Opinion March 30, 2018 | 1:37 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op- Ed contributor The View from Europe It is far from easy to separate fact from fiction when it comes to recent alle[...]The region’s recent history is being lost
Opinion March 23, 2018 | 1:22 pm
The View from Europe At the start of the month, Barbados’ former Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, officially departed the island’s Parliament and elective politics. Some weeks prior, he had indicat[...]Salisbury incident
Opinion March 22, 2018 | 12:49 pm
On a quiet Sunday in one of Britain’s most beautiful cathedral cities, a father and daughter were struck down by the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War. Ser[...]Better understanding of the complexity of the diaspora is required
Opinion March 16, 2018 | 2:56 pm
The View from Europe When it comes to harnessing the power of the Caribbean’s sizeable diaspora in North America and Europe, much of the recent emphasis has be[...]The EU27, common values and the Caribbean
Opinion March 9, 2018 | 12:40 pm
The View from Europe At the start of February, Stefano Manservisi, the Director General of the European Commission’s Development Directorate, delivered a lectu[...]The OECD has citizenship programmes in its sights
Opinion March 2, 2018 | 1:13 pm
The View from Europe Some years ago, a well-liked and highly respected Caribbean Ambassador regularly made the point that the region should follow more closely t[...]Finding projects that demonstrate regional integration has a future
Opinion February 23, 2018 | 3:10 pm
The View from Europe In a few days’ time, CARICOM Heads of Government will meet in Haiti. Judging from recent conversations with senior figures across the regi[...]The danger in what others wish for in Venezuela
Opinion February 16, 2018 | 1:19 pm
The View from Europe A few days ago, the International Energy Agency reported that oil production in the US was undergoing extraordinary’ growth. The OECD-related body for net importers of oil sa[...]The wider implications of the Golding report
Opinion February 9, 2018 | 12:48 pm
The View from Europe There will likely be much written in the coming weeks about the detail contained in the long-awaited Golding Report reviewing Jamaica's Relations with CARICOM and CARIFORUM. [...]Movie making can offer major development gain
Opinion February 2, 2018 | 1:21 pm
The View from Europe Making movies is big business. The amounts spent on a production can be substantial, running into hundreds of millions of dollars. For the Caribbean, attractin[...]The US, China and the Caribbean
Opinion January 26, 2018 | 4:05 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Just over two weeks ago CARICOM issued a statement that was probably without precedent in its long relationship with the United States. [...]Oil, the environment and the Caribbean
Opinion January 19, 2018 | 12:32 pm
Earlier this month Exxon announced that that it had made a major new oil find off Guyana. It was, it said, the largest since it began exploration there in 2015. The company’s statement followed one [...]Respect is the key to improving EU-Cuba relations
Opinion January 12, 2018 | 5:11 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor President Castro could not have been clearer. Speaking before Christmas to the Cuban National Assembly about the US, he sa[...]Time to reconsider the value of cruise tourism?
Opinion January 5, 2018 | 2:13 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor At the end of November, the Cuban government hosted an unusual meeting. Then, the Presidents of nine of the world’s leading cruis[...]New US security policy raises difficult questions for the Caribbean
Opinion December 22, 2017 | 2:05 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor. By law, every US President must publish a national security strategy. The objective is to provide the highest-level guidance on the respon[...]
