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Baroness Patricia Scotland: The Sixth Secretary General of the Commonwealth

by laura | Dec 2, 2015 | The Commonwealth

By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies After months of campaigning in the quiet corners of diplomatic offices, online on social media and in speeches from Gaborone to Valletta, the Commonwealth heads of government voted on...

Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean rescue in the Commonwealth

by chloe | Mar 27, 2015 | Asia, Canada & the Caribbean

by Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23rd. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island with virtually...

Vanuatu and Tuvalu – inadequate response to human suffering

by chloe | Mar 20, 2015 | Canada & the Caribbean

by Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies People on the East Coast of the United States of America (US) and the Caribbean should consider how best they might lend a helping hand to the people of the islands of Tuvalu and Vanuatu...

The unhelpful geopolitics of energy in the Caribbean

by chloe | Feb 26, 2015 | Canada & the Caribbean, Regions

Originally posted on Caribbean News Now.  by Sir Ronald Sanders, ICWS Senior Research Fellow US commentators are predicting the death of PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan oil initiative in the Caribbean, and the ascendancy of United States as the dominant player in the...

Reparations for Slavery: Can a claim be sustained?

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights

By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...

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