IT IS GOOD that Jamaica and the rest of its Caribbean Community partners have worked out their problems relating to cost-sharing for the Bruce Golding government in Kingston to maintain the Jamaica Defence Force relief operational base in earthquake-devastated Haiti until March 5.

IT is noteworthy that Tracy Davidson Celestine, one of the youngest members of the current administration at the Tobago House of Assembly, was the one to deliver the valuable comment connecting a people's heritage with the present and with the future.

How should Caribbean Governments seek to support tourism during a global recession? At a time of diminishing national reserves this is a question set to haunt the industry, governments and the region as a whole, if as seems probable both Government revenues and visitor arrivals continue to decline.

IT is clearly not an accident that perhaps the single most ticklish issue getting issue dealt with at the just-concluded 30th meeting of the Caricom heads of Government had to be with people at the centre.

BARBADIAN health authorities have thus far clearly demonstrated competence and confidence in dealing with the direct impact of the Influenza A H1N1 on our country.