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…
Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests
From The Guardian Prime minister makes announcement before parliament vote on no-confidence motion filed by opposition Protesters demand the resignation of Bulgaria’s government in Sofia on Wednesday amid anger over the 2026 draft budget they said was an attempt to…
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…
New Report Calls For Coordinated, Multi-sectoral Action to Tackle Firearm-related Violence and Trafficking in the Caribbean
The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Thursday, December 4, 2025—The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre (GACDRC) at The University of the West…
Sanders: The UN is fading — we should worry
Sir Ronald Sanders By Sir Ronald Sanders The United Nations is being starved quietly. This month in New York, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, warned the General Assembly’s budget committee that the UN is entering a “race to bankruptcy”. The organisation…
How Trump Fueled an Affordability Crisis
By David McCall Author Bio: David McCall is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Credit Line: This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute. The clients begin arriving at the Lansing Community Food Pantry, about 25 miles southeast of Downtown…
Polack Post: Caribbean – The End Of Elections
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The president of the USA has indicated his intention to pardon the convicted drug trafficker and ex president of Honduras. He has also threatened to cut off aid to that poverty stricken country if his…
Polack Post: Caribbean Trust – A Mirage
Peter Polack By Peter Polack In the grey and nuanced world within which we exist one of the few absolutes is trust, for which, like virginity, there are no degrees, it is unadulterated. Often falsely presented in scenarios where confidence…
Sanders: Hunger and war: The oldest crime the world still permits
By Sir Ronald Sanders Sir Ronald Sanders The governments of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering. That is the bleak truth behind a new UN report whose numbers should shame every leader or…
