What makes the Church relevant in a society? Is it to bash politicians and calls them evil, corrupt and involved in witchcraft, or should the Christian be following the principles set out in God’s word and pray for the leaders and nation. St. Lucia is at a critical time in its history and every prayer released for our government is a prayer that can be effective in causing change. The battle we face is a spiritual one, not flesh and blood, and thus the rules of engagement cannot be the same. When Jesus spoke of the core purpose of every believer, he called them salt and light. You are the salt of the earth, and a little bit of salt can influence much. Salt effects the environment around, so when there is gloom and doom, the believers speaks of the grace and love of God and instills confidence in a society. When there is violence, the believer releases words of peace and joy....

Recently, I was reading an article about the debt crisis in Cyprus and the author was making the point that debt is a silent killer. I started to draw comparisons with the ‘silent killer’ that we face in our own daily lives called hypertension. We fail to exercise discipline in what we eat, we do not exercise our bodies and the arteries get clogged over time and it takes a lot more to push the blood around the body. For a country, the nation fails to exercise discipline in their spending habits, and over time the debt slows down the ability to push resources around that nation, and sometime there is a sudden upsurge of violence, the national heart attack. As it is in the natural so is it also for the nation with such issues facing it. There is need to diagnose the problem and start the therapy. A stimulus package can be the defibrillator for any economy, but the discipline in...

The following is an excerpt from an article written by Ralph Maraj a former PNM Minster, but moreso known as in the arts. It is an excellent description of the political parties in the Caribbean and one can replace any two political parties in any country and the same will apply. These two parties continue to prevent the development of our politics. They have no structures or culture to hold leadership accountable; fora for genuine analysis and fearless selfexamination; intellectual rigour to banish blindness; curriculum for a depth and nobility in the politics; syllabus for selflessness in leadership. How can courage surface to question anything when you are branded ‘neemakakharam’ and traitor to the tribe? The parties offer no meaningful politics and so even their own enlightened avoid direct engagement, treating them like a shameful past. The political swampland therefore denies the...