Venezuela begins cutting ties with Guyana; warns it won’t back down in border dispute
From Caribbean360 CARACAS, Venezuela, Wednesday July 8, 2015 – “We are victims of dispossession. I say this to our friends and also to our enemies: No one will ever get Venezuela to renounce her historical rights to the Essequibo.” With…
The Editor speaks: Poor and the poorer
The Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick issued another report yesterday (7) this time on persons requiring social assistant. It was not good – in fact the report “Government programmes supporting those in need” is a damning statement on how the poor…
Broward’s Eleanor Sobel chastises Alan Grayson for ’embarrassing my party and my state’
By Anthony Man From Sun Sentinel Eleanor Sobel skewers fellow Democrat Alan Grayson as embarrassment to her party and state. State Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, issued a sharply critical critique of potential Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alan Grayson on Tuesday,…
Bishop Tutu is definitely not a scumbag and neither is Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
By Peter Binose, Kingstown SVG Wednesday, July 08, 2015 – Prime Minister Gonsalves leader of the Gonsalves dynasty family government group, owners of the ULP and the plantation known as Saint Vincent has aligned our pretty adorable little country with…
Franklin Graham: ‘Everything related to God’ is under attack
By Cathy Burke From Newsmax America is not only “blatantly defying God’s laws,” it’s trying to erase them from public view, evangelist preacher Franklin Graham charges in a blistering condemnation of an Oklahoma court order to remove a Ten Commandments…
Kramer Levin, Gibson Dunn prevail in Puerto Rico bond battle
By Julie Triedman, From The Litigation Daily In what is likely the leading edge of a rash of multibillion-dollar disputes involving the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the first round has gone to a group of bondholders. The U.S. Court of…
PPPs in the Caribbean: Filling the gap
By Brian Samuel From The World Bank PPP’s – Public-Private Partnership Prior to about 2005, for many tourists their Jamaican vacation was ruined at the last minute, by the hot and overcrowded conditions inside Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport. Fast…
Half the dolphins caught in Japan hunt exported despite global outcry: report
Agence France-Presse From Guardian UK Of the live dolphins caught in the town of Taiji about half find buyers in China and other countries, it’s reported, despite criticism of the hunt About half of the live dolphins caught in the…
Privacy software company sues Google for removal from Android market
By Chris DiMarco, From Legaltech News Disconnect charges that their product was removed because it is better at detecting the use of Internet trackers than the competition. With average citizens placing more stock in the protection of their personal information,…
The Editor Speaks: Shocking, shameful, wasteful, criminal and no heads will roll
It is a pity we don’t have Judith the warrior Biblical figure who is responsible fir the phrase “He lost his head to a woman”. It would appear many men (the subject of this Editorial and one of our Front…
