Jul 30
Address to the St Kitts and Nevis Chamber of Commerce on June 23, 2011. Colin Bullock is a former Financial Secretary and senior central bank official of Jamaica.
I thank the Chamber of Commerce of St Kitts-Nevis for inviting me to speak on the nature, prospects and challenges of an IMF borrowing arrangement. The timing is opportune as I understand that St Kitts-Nevis has recently concluded arrangements for a Standby Borrowing Arrangement with the IMF and Jamaica signed a similar agreement some 16 months before…
Jul 29
From the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington D.C.
Information released by WikiLeaks points to a continuation of U.S. dominance and the application of “neo-imperialist” diplomacy in Latin America. The cables regarding Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, exemplify the persistence of U.S. interference…
Jul 28
From The Guardian, UK, 22 July 2011
Some have pointed to the Jamaican debt restructuring of last year as a model for Greece…It is worth a closer look at what has been done to Jamaica, not only as a warning to Greece, but to shed some light on the damage that can be done when “the international community” is willing to sacrifice a country for the sake of creditors’ interests…
Jul 28
From the Trinidad and Tobago Review, July 2, 2011
One of the distinguishing features of politics in Trinidad and Tobago over the last forty years has been the tendency for political parties to quickly dispense with the lofty ideals expressed in their manifestos once they get into Government. The People’s Partnership Government promised “new politics”, but the evidence before us calls that into question…
Jul 28
ATLANTA, GA. July 25, 2011 - “Africa is dying” warned the former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark as he condemns the attack on Libya as illegal and racist and called for the intensification of actions to protect Africa. The chilling but pointed messages and reports on Africa from prominent leaders were focused on critical issues such as the ongoing war in Libya, the “new scramble for the re-colonization of Africa” and the dwindling and endangerment of Black freedom and rights across the world…
Click here for a map of NATO’s air attacks on Libyan cities (Al Jazeera)
Jul 27
I wonder whether out of this Norweigian tragedy there cannot be much water found to pour on the war fires around the world…
Jul 27
I welcome the selection of Irwin LaRocque to be the new Secretary-General of CARICOM. I know him to be a person of professionalism, integrity and proven commitment to regionalism. However, Mr LaRocque should not be given a basket to carry water. If CARICOM is to be re-energised and if the implementation deficit is to be addressed; Mr LaRocque will need to have the full support of the Heads of Government for reform of governance to provide legal teeth to the decisions of CARICOM organs and to establish an executive authority to oversee implementation.
Norman Girvan
27 July 2011
Jul 24
In the inaugural G. Arthur Brown Memorial Lecture of the Bank of Jamaica, Sir Shridath points to the failure of Caribbean leaders to rise to the regional challenge, fixated as they are with retaining the vestiges of ‘local control’—a hangover from the colonial era.
To have been invited to deliver the G Arthur Brown Lecture is honour enough; to have the opportunity of inaugurating the Lecture Series that memorialises this great son of Jamaica and the Caribbean is beyond deserving. …
Jul 17
Let us admit the fact that as individual islands and certainly in the case of Jamaica, if we continue down our current insular path of Governance and Economic Under-Development we will not survive as a sustainable society. Norman Manley and those who proposed a Federation as the path to sustainable development were correct over 50 years ago and the concept seriously needs revisiting. Here are some simple facts…
Jul 17
The Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines is calling on his fellow heads of government to provide focused leadership to the regional integration movement. He rightly says that business as usual is not an option.
Our undoubted quest is for an optimal integration of the Caribbean. This is a great cause and has been so for generations. Great causes have never been won by doubtful men and women..
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