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Talking about news liners being in sync, after reading the December 19 article about the 35th America’s Cup concerns in the wake of the House of Assembly issue, I recall it being one of the first things I thought about on that eventful day of Decembe...

As an outsider and vicarious participant in American politics, the 2016 election unleashed in me a plethora of foreboding senses. For persons such as me, we will feel it because United States politics is the politics of the world in which we are jus...

Leah Scott wrote an appealing op-ed about the threat of civil protest undermining the integrity of Parliament and its ability to be seen to effectively govern. Her words were meant as a deterrent for protesters to take seriously what their act of blo...

No one would have been surprised that the Progressive Labour Party retained its seat in Constituency 26. Warwick South Central is a PLP stronghold and a prized seat that has played host to two PLP leaders, one as premier. However, the margin of victo...

Not wanting to dedicate energy towards a rumour, I have had to rely on the presumption that The Royal Gazette would not publish a front-page story without some substance behind it. Real-time events nowadays are such that they should not need to inven...

The decision by the British Supreme Court to reject the appeal by Prime Minister Theresa May to set aside the ruling that requires the Brexit vote to gain its approval from a vote in Parliament has set the British Government on its heels. We can reca...

On this latest House of Assembly protest, I have to first acknowledge my own bias. My sister, who is a retired senior citizen, was one of those pepper-sprayed and I believe her portrayal of events. She is a sympathiser and supporter of the Progressiv...

The death of Fidel Castro, the strongman of Cuba, has drawn mixed reactions all around the world. Depending on how we view history and how we watch it unfold, Castro will be characterised as liberator or dictator. We live in the present and it is e...

Nothing defines a government more than they way it interprets the role and access to its courts. We got a great lesson on this point in the US elections where the Republicans have refused to ratify a Supreme Court justice proposed by President Barack...

Many, many years ago, a math professor often repeated a French term, which means “I am doctoring my own ignorance”. True to those words, life has been a journey of unmasking my own ignorance, sometimes referred to as naivety. For example, I thought e...