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The organisation consists of a variety of networks developed over decades The Commonwealth, an association of 54 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific, has always been a rather mysterious organisation. It evolved gradually over the course of the 20th Century, making it difficult to pinpoint a precise starting date. Also, it operates more on precedent than formal agreements leading to further ambiguity. It’s also unclear what tangible benefits Commonwealth citizens derive from the organisation. And perhaps the biggest mystery of all is why a group of nations that st...

By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the OAS.  He is also a  Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.  The views expressed are entirely his own) It was an odd law into which to place it, but new and welcome directives on ‘de-risking’, which has plagued Caribbean countries, has become law in the United States. The law in which the helpful directives are embedded is the ‘‘William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act f...

On 8 and 9 August 1966, representatives of all the military governors met in Lagos and recommended, among other measures,

People in the Caribbean, who refuse to take vaccinations to counter the Coronavirus, will cause the COVID-19 pandemic to remain longer...