Re: Cayman Crime
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Rewards while a reasonable idea, go to the end of the offence chain, namely arrest. Police and the justice system are there to detect, arrest and imprison. These systems in the Cayman Islands are not…
Polack Post: Caribbean Vows – In Sickness And Health
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The truth is often like a wife who abandons her husband in hospital, a friend who does not return your calls for help, bankers who refuse you after the 243rd mortgage payment and governments who…
How Long Can Palantir’s Monopoly Last?
After another meteoric year, the U.S. data software giant’s dominance could be tested by growing competition and scrutiny.
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Chile: Pinochetism Returns to Power
By Atilio A. Borón Author Bio: This article was produced for Página 12 and Globetrotter. Atilio A. Borón is an Argentine sociologist, political scientist, professor, and writer. PhD in Political Science from Harvard University Source: Globetrotter José A. Kast’s resounding victory in the runoff election…
Ronald Sanders | Weakness of sovereignty exposed: Why CARICOM should stand together
Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders The Caribbean is living through a moment of rising geopolitical tension. As the United States intensifies pressure on the Maduro government in Venezuela, the ripples reach CARICOM shores fast. None of these countries…
Polack Post: Caribbean Kings And Fools
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The USA has a president who has teased about an unconstitutional third term as well as being a king. This is an understandable and frivolous assertion that would just be a throw away line but…
The Future of Humanity’s Past: U.S. Archaeology Confronts a Research Hinge Point
By Gary M. Feinman and Jill E. Neitzel Author Bio: Gary M. Feinman is an archaeologist and the MacArthur curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Jill E. Neitzel is an archaeologist and professor emerita at the…
Polack Post: Caribbean Cassandra Complex – Failure Or Not ?
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Cassandra, the Greek myth of a a woman cursed to tell truths that no one believes, must resonate throughout the islands of the Caribbean. A United Nations Development Programme report estimated that Caribbean countries suffered…
Caribbean Coalitions – Failure Or Not?
Peter Polack By Peter Polack and Emil Arguelles For a long time the world was ruled by monarchies and autocrats that even exist in part today in Caribbean countries and wholly in some places in the outside world. The last…
The Case for Renaming Ourselves
We pride ourselves on wisdom, yet we destroy the world and deny the minds of nonhuman animals. Martina Moneke argues that calling ourselves Homo stultus—foolish man—might be the first step toward genuine ethical evolution.
