Posts by Petra

In Belém, Brazil, where the Amazon River flows like a living artery and the forest stands as the planet’s last great shield, COP30 was intended to be the Implementation COP.…

Malaka Parker’s Return and the Politics of Convenience, Redemption, and Reinvention In Antigua and Barbuda, political returns are rarely quiet affairs. They do not tiptoe. They do not whisper. They…

We’re not going to a concert.We’re not watching a steel orchestra.We’re not attending an 80th anniversary. No. We are HellsGating.  HellsGate is no longer just a nouna name etched on a drum, an institution standing since 1945,The legendary firstborn of…

Across the Caribbean, there is a deepening sense that the hemisphere has entered a more uncertain and finely balanced moment. Regional watchers understand that whenever great powers shift their posture,…

Every controversy in Antigua and Barbuda, it seems, must first pass through a political sieve. Scandal is rarely examined for what it reveals about systemic weakness; instead, it is mined…

The global landscape within which small island economies function is being reshaped. The political dynamics now emerging echo those of the Cold War: powerful nations positioning, courting, and pressuring smaller states. But…

Every now and then, our public life gives us a moment worth pausing to examine, not because it is dramatic, but because it is revealing. Recent commentary in the national…

When Help Becomes a Profession — and a Mirror” Sometimes, the smallest gestures: gentle reminders, waiting companions, a tissue quietly offered, reveal the biggest shifts in how a society cares…

There’s something profoundly moving about standing beneath our national flag as it ripples against the trade winds — a vivid emblem of who we are and all we aspire to…