A STRONG focus of Caithness and north Sutherland regeneration is well summed up as "The right time, the right place and the right people". That was the…
FAR too many of the discussions I hear about the increases in electricity and gas prices fail to get past populist posturing.
I have multiple interests in the crews from Ullapool, Coigach, Helmsdale and Wick as they are all residents of my constituency, along with 41 others from…
THE final week of the Holyrood parliamentary session in this last week in June has made an epic amount of work for all MSPs. After the successful Aberdeen…
Despite this surge, an investor famine in Europe is slowing development on and offshore in Scotland and the UK.
LAST week the news that a certain football manager was retiring upstaged the state opening of the Westminster Parliament. Not that the news from the Queen’s…
HERE are two plain unvarnished truths about the Scottish economy. It’s in much better financial condition than the UK.
IN April Fools’ Day week you might be forgiven for thinking poor old Scotland just can’t hack it. As the UK’s millionaires get a tax…
I WILL be pleased to support to WWF’s Earth Hour tomorrow by switching off the lights and celebrating the power of the planet.
TACKLING climate change and developing renewable energy are two sides of the same coin.
But Scotland is attracting big inward investment to back the renewables revolution, our unemployment in Caithness and north Sutherland is far less than…
ON the day we returned from a week’s break in the sun in Barcelona, the Edinburgh Agreement was being signed. In Catalunya they, too, await an election…
IT has been calculated that Scotland’s pensioners could be worse off by £900 million by the end of 2014 under UK Government policies, according…
LAST week’s announcement to cut senior BBC reporters in the Highlands and Islands by 50 per cent is not just bad timing, it spectacularly fails…
THE strong performance of Norway’s oil fund shows the scale of the opportunity which was missed as a result of successive UK governments determined…
IN the shadows of a rain-swept Stirling Castle children from the Raploch estate created a concert spectacle which blew away the negative connotations…
Makar is the old Scots word for quality and excellence. We have a national poetry makar, Liz Lochhead, who was appointed after the death of Scotland’s…
IT was my pleasure to host Willie Watt, general manager at Subsea 7 and chairman of Wick Harbour Authority, as my guest at the seventh annual Business…
YOU have to laugh, imagine London journalists calling Scotland "Skintland". Well, thanks to The Economist, a magazine that takes itself so seriously,…
CAITHNESS has good opportunities for new jobs in the new Scottish economy...
