A hemispheric divide defined by two women, two nations, and one superpower. PREAMBLE — LEADERSHIP IN THE SHADOW OF AMERICAN POWER How do we truly perceive leadership when the world’s most powerful nation is exerting pressure across our hemisphere? And what does it reveal about the character of leaders who

In Trinidad and Tobago, we have an old saying: “What is joke for school chile, is death for crapaud.” It comes from a cruel little game children once played pelting a frog with sticks and stones, laughing as though it were fun, never grasping the torment they were inflicting. The frog

That Begins the Story How did I arrive here, I wonder. Because the flux in the political atmosphere is overwhelmingly tormenting — that black hole of emotion, the kind that pulls the body, mind, and spirit into exhaustion. The scenarios keep circling, repeating, unraveling — until the regime that punctured

There’s a gaping crack in the dome of our democracy. And we’ve been given no choice but to cover it with temporary band-aids, with no forecast of a permanent fix. We were on the verge of losing the very air we breathe. Because when a government shuts down, it isn’t

There’s a strange kind of mirror hidden in the folds of America’s story. One side shows the Whittaker family of West Virginia — a clan whose generations of intermarriage became a global spectacle. Cameras came, the world gawked, and yet the real lesson was never about their faces or their fate. It

There are days when the air itself feels thick with indignation—when maudlin speeches, despotic threats, and unwelcome agendas flood our screens, and every headline seems to whisper: beware. I’ve fumed, yes. I’ve sounded the clarion for vigilance. But today I turn to the other side of that story— to the doers. The