The Sunday Spectator

As I read Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s New Year’s Address, I felt a philosophy of leadership that sat quietly beneath the words. It was not the script of a government…

Technology, culture, climate, and the Global South converge as Beijing enters its 15th Five-Year Plan As fireworks faded across Asia on New Year’s Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a message that…

2025 Spectating features and adventures provided an opportunity to share from my corner of the world the local moments and global forces shaping small islands in a changing world. Some pieces…

Washington exported inflation.St John’s tried to intercept it at the ports.That is what 2025 really was. It did not arrive with sirens. There were no emergency press conferences or red-alert…

It was a packed house for what is now fast becoming one of Antigua and Barbuda’s most cherished annual Christmas traditions.  The third edition of The Spirit of Christmas, presented by…

The occasion brought together the nation’s political leadership, diplomatic corps, and civil society in a visible demonstration of continuity and bipartisan support for the China–Antigua and Barbuda relationship. His Excellency…

There’s an old idea America never quite buried.  Manifest Destiny, the belief that some people are meant to move freely, expand, claim space, and others are meant to be managed,…

For much of the past decade, the United States has functioned as the global economy’s stabiliser of last resort. Even when growth slowed elsewhere, America continued to generate jobs, sustain…

December 11, 2025 - China released an updated Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean yesterday (Wednesday), the third in less than two decades. The paper outlines a comprehensive…

December 9, 2025 - Antigua and Barbuda’s founding father, The Right Honourable Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr., was born 116 years ago today. A giant carved from cane fields and…