By: FEMI OWOEYE According to an old African fable, a hungry cat normally prays: “Oh God, I don’t need you to provide me any food or meat. All I ask for is to make my environment full of living rats and give me clear eyesight. I can handle the rest.” In economic terms, what the…
By: PATRICIA SCOTLAND (Commonwealth Secretary-General) A lethal combination of disease, extreme climate events and economic crises is threatening the smallest and most vulnerable nations of the world. To tackle it, we must overhaul how we understand and address economic vulnerability. The COVID-19 pandemic has already triggered a massive global recession. Meanwhile, a record number of…
Countries’ response to Covid-19, their long-term development and the meeting of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are all threatened by the “invisible infection” of corruption, the Commonwealth Secretary-General has warned. Speaking to the annual conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB), Patricia Scotland laid bare the devastating impact criminal acts…
By: PATRICIA SCOTLAND (Commonwealth Secretary-General) Today I received a message from a parent. Her nine-year-old son, Oscar, had been sitting in his living room during the Covid-19 lockdown, watching coverage of protests, sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the United States. He was perplexed and sat glued to his television as…
