Art & Culture
The Telephone: A Tribute to My Father
June 9, 2024
George Odlum and My Visit to Bristol University
January 29, 2024
My Father and the Mango Palwi Tree
June 18, 2023
Mother’s Most Precious
May 11, 2023
Monty Maxwell & Kalbas for VFCSS Jazz
April 29, 2023
St. Lucian Folk Hero Comes to Vieux Fort’s Rescue
April 24, 2023
I Remember
June 15, 2022
The World of Mathurine Emmanuel
May 17, 2022
St. Lucians Don’t Read: Fact or Myth?
February 6, 2022
The Motherland in Despair
September 14, 2021
The Kilimanjaro
August 1, 2020
Dr. Reynolds and the St. Lucia Diaspora
November 14, 2018
The St. Lucia Renaissance
Presented at Vieux Fort Nobel Laureate Literary Night, 2017
Castries and the St. Lucia Renaissance
Presented at 6th St. Lucia Studies Conference, 2016
Cultural Products as Public Goods
Presented at 16th Triennial ACLALS) Conference, 2013
Derek Walcott: The Prodigal
The Jako, Summer/Fall 2005
The Life and Art of Dunstan St. Omer
The Jako, Summer/Fall 2005
Ronald “Boo” Hinkson and the St. Lucia Music Industry
The Jako, Spring 2005
Arnold Toulon: An Artist with a Difference
The Jako, Spring 2005
The Development of St. Lucian Culture
The Jako, Winter 2005
Jany Williams: The Last Interview
The Jako, Winter 2005
Cedric George and Organometrix: A New Way of Looking at The World
The Jako, Winter 2005
On Writing and the Creative Process
Presented at Castries Central Public Library, April 22, 2002
The Ghettoization and Vulgarization of St. Lucia’s Culture
The Voice Newspaper, 2009
Politics & Society
The Scramble for Vieux Fort
June 11, 2024
Allen Chastanet and the National Identity Crisis
July 31, 2022
Chastanet a Blessing in Disguise
September 2, 2021
Dysfunctional St. Lucian Governments
July 23, 2021
Vieux Fort is the Nation’s Third Poorest District and has its highest Unemployment Rate
September 9, 2020
The Slogan Factor
July 26, 2020
The Allen Chastanet Ultimatum (Part 2 of 2)
July 22, 2020
The Elephant in The SLP Room
July 4, 2020
Vieux Fort Political Leadership Crisis
June 26, 2020
Who Runs Vieux Fort
reprinted from The Voice, 2015
The Making of ECTEL: A Lesson in Caribbean Integration
The Jako, Summer/Fall 2005
Federation, Integration, & CSME
The Jako, Spring 2005
A School Waiting to be Rescued
Reprinted from The Mirror, October/November 2000
The Taming of Vieux Fort
Reprinted from The Mirror, June 2000
The Making of Shantytown
Reprinted from The Voice, November 2001
CSME, Culture & Economics
Reprinted from The Mirror, June 2000
On the Writings of Anderson Reynolds
The Literary Works Of Anderson Reynolds
by Modeste Downes
The World of Anderson Reynolds
Reprinted from The Voice
A synthesis of three St. Lucian Novels
The Jako, Spring 2005
Academic Papers & Presentations
Academic Journals
A Latent Variable Approach to Modeling Consumer Perception of Orange Juice (with Gao & Lee).
Agribusiness: An International Journal 9(1993) 317-324.
Analyzing Fresh Vegetable Consumption from Household Survey Data
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 22(1990)31-38.
Testing for Causality between Advertising Expenditures and Canadian Demand for Cheese and Butter (with Mcfaul & Goddard)
Agribusiness: An International Journal, 7 (1991) 197-202.
Testing and Correcting for Distributional Misspecifications in the Tobit model: An Application of the Information Matrix Test (with Shonkwiler)
Empirical Economics, 16(1991)313-323
Structural Change in Canadian Meat Demand (with Goddard).
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 39 (1991)211-22
A Structural Equation Approach to Measuring Technological Change: An Application to Southeastern U.S. Agriculture (with Gao)
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 5 (1994) 123-139
Conference Presentations
Cultural Products as Public Goods
16th Triennial ACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Conference
Gros Islet, St. Lucia, August 5-9, 2013.
An Economic Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Local Public Coin Placed Calls
11th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
Crystal City, Virginia, June, 1993.
An Econometric Model of Access Demand: An Application of the Translog Input Demand System
Presented at the 12th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, June 1994.
An Econometric Model of Customer Perception of Southwestern Bell.
12th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, June 1994.
An Analysis of the Impact of Promotional Channels on OCP Take-Rate and IntraLATA Toll Revenues
13th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 1995.
Modeling Demand for Non-Published number Messaging: An Application of the Double-Bounded Logit Model
14th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
Dallas, Texas, April 1996
Usage Sensitive Study of Auto Redial and Call Return: An Application of the Seemingly Unrelated Poisson Regression Model.
16th Annual International Telecommunications Forecasting Conference
St. Louis, MO, June 1998.