Haiti’s symptoms of broken healthcare systems
By Henry Beaucejour From Caribbean News Now Among all the countries in the Americas, Haiti is one of the very poorest. This country has approximately ten million inhabitants, of which 75% exist on less than two dollars per day. This…
Haiti: No moving out and moving on
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday June 6, 2016 – There is a certain illogic in the reaction of both the UN Secretary-General and the US State Department over the findings of a Haitian Verification Commission that…
Peter Binose: New gag laws in SVG
By Peter Binose Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, set to pass Law designed to gag the media on practiced filth. A law presented in Parliament on Tuesday 31 May 2016 proposes makes it illegal for persons to place certain images…
Haiti’s water crisis reveals failure of government
By Henry Beaucejour From Caribbean News Now If Canada is considered to be the best country in the world to live in, then without a doubt Haiti with all of its very big problems, political, economic and social, must currently…
The View from Europe: The urgency of now
By David Jessop From The Barbados Advocate There is no shortage of astute advice, or practical thinking about the region’s future. In the last two weeks alone, speeches from significant regional figures have again made clear what practically is required…
Snap elections – A new style of Caribbean politics
By Jeffers Joseph From Caribbean News Now There is a new style of “last minute election announcement” date, which has been spreading across the Caribbean, and many countries in the region – predominantly the less developed ones – are seemingly…
Peter Binose: Argyle International Airport, the truth at last.
By Peter Binose I and a colleague have just returned to London from Managua the capital of Nicaragua where I have been working on a News assignment for a leading UK Newspaper. We were fortunate to meet with a quite…
Tourism Matters: Landmark UK court ruling
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now For as long as I can remember it has been one of the most contentious laws in the United Kingdom for many years. Until a landmark court ruling last week, local education authorities…
It’s time to stop ‘dissing’ our heroes, and get rid of mediocrity
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large [email protected] From Jamaica Observer As ridiculous as it sounded, news came last week by way of a badly written news release issued by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) —something that has become common in the…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Politics of ‘ethic arithmetic’
By Rickey Singh From Barbados Nation News PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart may perhaps take pride in keeping close to his chest any creative political initiative he plans to unfold for the second half century of Barbados as an independent nation,…