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Wiretapping - Bad for Antigua

Gave his blessings to wiretappingThe overwhelming rise in criminal activity is making us afraid of our own shadows. There is so much

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Why Did Antigua Win But End Up Losing

The WTO conflict Antigua St John's - With a novelist’s touch, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer conveyed more errors than

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Lessons From The Stoute Saga

Lessons From The Stoute SagaThe unfolding incident surrounding Bajan all-rounder Kevin Stoute has drawn regional attention. Perhaps it is

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Open Letter to Harold Lovell

Chasing-pretty-butterfliesDearest Honorable Lovell, It pains me to write this letter, which may not charm at first sight. Yet,

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Can The Economy Be Restored

Economic-stagnationIt is common knowledge that residents and citizens can’t rely on remittances from abroad as the global

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Invest In The Best

Who-should-eat-from-the-public-purse?Just on his ability to blatantly disregard local talent, the legitimacy of PM Baldwin Spencer’s decisions

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Programmed for Failure

Programmed for Failure

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Still Waiting for Good Governance

Blind-political-loyaltiesFrom the far corners of the Grand Canyon of Hope I wonder aloud:  When will our practice of nation-building

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A Daunting Task

Unchallenged-messageAs Antigua and Barbuda (A&B) awaits the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal to render its verdict on

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Dangling With Our Future- Pt II

Slick operatorsWhen we look at our leaders, do their words, behaviours, and decisions represent the values that we wish to

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Lowering Our Education Bar

Lowering our education barIf anything is clear from Education Minister Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro’s testimony that the nation has seen a

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Dangling With Our Future- Pt I

Dangling With Our FutureWith projections of “deep trouble” facing Antigua & Barbuda, it is not enough for Opposition Leader

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Can PM Spencer Beat The Odds

Beat The OddsWith a changed political landscape, Prime Minister Winston Baldwin Spencer announced that he is fully

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How Should the PM Take Ultimate Responsibility for the ABEC Fallout

Ultimate ResponsibilityNow that the Honourable Baldwin Spencer has made public the justification for his decision regarding the

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Getting It Right

A-strategic-priority-pathwayDear Editor
My article, “Wrong Track Wrong Direction,” underscored several issues that inspired

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The Ice Cream Melts- 2011 Budget Review

The Ice Cream MeltsReading the 2011 Budget Statement reminded me of an experience at Harvard, where an exceptionally bright

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Wrong Track Wrong Direction

A wise choice?I read Peter Richards’ article ‘Antigua Threatens Sanctions Against the United States’ on

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Happy New Year from Dr Newton

Happy New YearDear Readers: As the year drew rapidly towards an end, I felt compelled to move beyond its limits by

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All Gold Glitters- My Perspective on SDA Education

SDA school in AntiguaDear Editor. I write in response to the article: SDA Parent At Wit’s End, because I am deeply concerned

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Do You Hear What I Hear

Blindness of party politicsIn her book, ‘Happy Birthday, Good Knight’, Shelly Moore Thomas teaches a powerful lesson. Three little

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PM Spencer’s Dilemmas

DilemmasPM Baldwin Spencer must overcome the widespread belief that some members of his administration wallow and

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Don’t Weep for the PM

Don’t Weep for the PMI was charmed for words to declare my thoughts after reading Dr. Marcus Mottley’s moving commentary on

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Haiti - Spiritual Myth Irony and Hope

Turn-chaos-into-hopeIn a seemingly incongruous marriage between the catastrophic agonies of a shaking earth and the prolonged

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One Eye Blindness

One Eye BlindnessWhat will happen next, if the Court permits constitutional laws to be sullied and election results to remain

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Father of the Nation V.C. Bird Sr - Villain or Hero

Villain or HeroI get a sense from the many cultural discussions around VC Bird Sr, that there is a tangle of verbal

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The Fuss Is Good

People’s capacity to judge the judgesWith all of the nuances that underly litigation, Antiguans & Barbudans followed the election dispute case

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Christians and Carnival at Crossroads

IS Carnival become so indecent?In August 2009 I wrote an article exploring whether Christians should participate in Carnival. My aim was to

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Turning Judgement Day Into A Living History

The most significant single syllable to emerge from this collective theatre of impatience, after the Eastern

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Doomed If We Do- Damned If We Don’t

Time to stand upWhile I was busy collecting relevant data for big-picture analyses, with emphasis on practical outcomes, some

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Is the Politics of telecommunications Dividing the Family

Digicel’s gift In Antigua & Barbuda, as in the wider Caribbean, we believe that our ability to politicize every issue is

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Is The Caribbean’s Future Safe?

Understand-our-Caribbean-neighborsJust about everything we witnessed on a macro plane in the Caribbean began with the antithesis: Hope or Die.

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All Hail Bullspistle Power

All Hail Bullspistle PowerWho or what gives authorisation to this majestic weapon? The bullpistle is a Caribbean cultural symbol at its

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Lessons from the Red-Nose Reindeer

The Red-Nose Reindeer‘’More, more please," was her plea as I tossed her high in mid-air. She laughed heartily. Even as a

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Lam-Mo-Shae

Skipping rope.photo-hakunamatata.ieI was leaving family and friends behind to face a threatening hurricane. I was going to meet my dad, whose

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Amazing Disgrace: Part II

Iintriguing-dialoguesMy proposed solutions to the public feud between the governor general (GG) and opposition leader Lester Bird

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Dr.Isaac Newton

Dr. Isaac Newton is an International Leadership and Change Management Consultant and Political Adviser. He specializes in Government and Business Relations and Sustainable Development Projects. Dr. Newton works extensively in West Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America and is a graduate of Oakwood College, Harvard, Princeton and Columbia. He has published several books on personal development and written many articles on economics, education, leadership, political, social, and faith based issue

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