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Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as incorrect as those opinions may be. This week, Khalid Wasi wrote an opinion on Caribbean history. Considering his constant bashing of the region, I found it an interesting topic for him to write about. “Cert...

There is only one thing you really need to know about investing in 2023, and it’s both stunningly obvious and invariably forgotten: there is no free lunch. Sure, everybody knows that with higher expected returns comes the bigger risk of loss. But tim...

The US House of Representatives is in a state that seems common in recent years: an existential limbo in which the old, loosely written rules have proved inadequate for describing reality

From a distance, from outside the circle of fans and aficionados, NFL football is both confounding and enraging. It is America's most popular sport and it is also deliberately, unspeakably violent. It is a particular kind of violence that is less abo...

There is a school of thought based mainly on a Darwinist premise of random selection. Hence, there is its concomitant cofactor — “what if?” What if this had occurred as opposed to that, etc? Even though “if” is a nonreality, we still fascinate ourse...

I keep reading that 2022 was the year of peak woke. If true, the surmise will spark either joy or sorrow, depending on predisposition. For the wordsmith, however, the intriguing question is not whether wokeism is on the decline; it’s how the word acq...

I was somewhat surprised to find my name included in Christopher Famous’s political magic show last week. Once again, he has attempted to argue a point by erecting multiple straw man arguments that he can easily tear down. This is easily accomplished...

When former Chief Minister and Minister of Finance the late Ralph T. O’Neal and his administration successfully acquired BVI House in July 2002 to set up the BVI London Office, it was with a clear understanding that the British Virgin Islands’ nation...

What to expect in 2023: it’s hard to believe that the post-Covid world at one point was supposed to usher in a new consumer-led boom worthy of the “Roaring Twenties”. Instead, crises have only kept piling up, from war to inflation, triggering dispara...

In the year 2023, I intend to develop another approach to political matters: my motto going forward will be “educate and not agitate”. Political reform is an essential part of the democratic experience. Jurisdictions that have an open process for re...