Earl M. Bousquet is President of St. Lucia-China Friendship Association (SLCFA), columnist of The Voice of St. Lucia, St. Lucia's largest and oldest newspaper and commentator of DBS TV Evening News. He can be reached at embousquet@hotmail.com
China's Sichuan Province has taken the first bold step of dumping GDP as the sole yardstick to measure its wealth and people's well being. That's a global first – and they're counting on it to last.
Developing countries have left another Climate Change summit feeling their pleas were simply not being heard or listened to by the richer nations most responsible for the world's climate crisis.
Globalization hasn't erased or altered the reasons why the world was divided into North and South, East and West. Nor has it changed the way in which some age-old institutions operate.