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Our Caribbean
The lessons of Panama and its papers
Sir Ron SandersApril 13, 2016The names of persons implicated in the leak of the so-called "Panama papers" on April 3 reads like a who's who of the politically powerful in many parts of the ...
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Our Caribbean
Caribbean banking: Defending rights, resisting unfair practices
Sir Ron SandersApril 3, 2016In January coincidental to my assuming the Presidency of the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS), I met, in Washington DC, the Prime Minister of Belize, Deane ...
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Our Caribbean
Cuba is an imminent competitor
Sir Ron SandersMarch 24, 2016My commentary this week is an expanded version of a response I gave to a Jamaican journalist who asked me: what are the implications for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean ...
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Our Caribbean
Immigration and trade in Politics: Part Two
Sir Ron SandersMarch 18, 2016In the first part of this commentary on Immigration and Trade in politics, the focus was on the present primaries of the US Presidential election. Both issues have been hotly ...
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Our Caribbean
Immigration and trade: Part One
Sir Ron SandersMarch 13, 2016Trade has become an issue in the political party primaries of the US Presidential elections that holds lessons for the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
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Our Caribbean
A Caribbean banking agency in the US: a further step ...
Sir Ron SandersMarch 4, 2016Caribbean governments, indigenous banks and offshore banks located in the Caribbean are extremely concerned about the withdrawal of correspondent relations from Caribbean banks by banks in the United States of ...
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Our Caribbean
Would the real tax havens please stand
Sir Ron SandersFeb. 26, 2016"It is tantamount to an economic blockade". That's how Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, described the current withdrawal from Caribbean indigenous and offshore banks of correspondent relationships by ...
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Our Caribbean
Helping Haiti Help Itself
Sir Ron SandersFeb. 20, 2016Haiti has made a firm and important first step in taking responsibility for its affairs after decades of external interference. An agreement, reached on the night of February 5, twenty-four ...
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Our Caribbean
Can Sanders trump Trump?
Sir Ron SandersFeb. 13, 2016In the United States, particularly in Washington DC the nation's capital, it is impossible to escape the current elections by the Republican and Democratic parties to choose a candidate to ...
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Our Caribbean
De-risking or destruction? Neither is fair
Sir Ron SandersJan. 31, 2016"If there were any scheme designed to destroy the economies of several countries without a military war, then this is such a scheme. It is erroneous; it is pernicious; and ...
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Our Caribbean
The OAS ship has to be righted
Sir Ron SandersJan. 24, 2016It is little known outside of the Organisation of American States (OAS) and even among its member Governments that it has been in a financial crisis for several years.
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Our Caribbean
Obama standing tall and respected
Sir Ron SandersJan. 15, 2016(Sir Ronald Sanders is Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the US and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and ...
