Fire in Babylon fades as West Indies face a new reality
By Gideon Haigh From THE AUSTRALIAN They all play basketball now. Or football. Or T20. Sad isn’t it? They should set up some academies. They should pick some kids and get Viv in to talk to them. Yeah, wasn’t he…
The real test begins for Venezuelan President Maduro
From COHA Sunday’s momentous legislative electoral events may have marked a turning point in the history of modern Venezuelan politics. The overwhelming victory of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) over President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has…
OUR CARIBBEAN: PM Gonsalves on another victory road
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News TODAY [Wed 9], as voters of St Vincent and the Grenadines trek to polling booths to choose a new government in Kingstown, there remain sharply contrasting predictions on the official outcome expected by midnight….
Small states facing a slide to catastrophe
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Sir Ronald Sanders The success of the current climate change conference in Paris for small states will be judged by only two criteria: the limiting of global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, and…
The Editor speaks: Disability
Thursday (3) was International day of persons with disabilities”. In the address from Cayman Islands premier, Alden McLaughlin, on this Day he said, “It is important to note that all of us either are or will become disabled to one…
How will we define the Caribbean tech startup success story?
By Ingrid Riley From Silicon Caribe The tendency to pay attention to startups that’s targeting huge global markets is a bias of the venture capital culture worldwide, where thinking BIG in terms of market size is the primary focus. For…
Tourism Matters: The untapped market within the Caribbean
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now It’s now over five years since we organised and held the last re-DISCOVER the Caribbean Show and wonder if the timing is now right to resurrect the event again, especially as there are…
The Editor speaks: AIDS
On Tuesday we made the world aware of AIDS. Here in the Cayman Islands we joined the rest of the world in marking World AIDS Day, which has the theme this year ‘On the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030’….
Peter Binose: Argyle Airport, once again Gonsalves mixes lies and truth to deceive.
By Peter Binose According to a report ‘The Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority [ECCAA]’ the aircraft that landed at Argyle International Airport on Thursday was for flight checking of the various procedures that have been developed for the approach to and departure…
OPINION – Peter Binose: Sex Tapes
By Peter Binose Telephone Sex Accusation Against Ralph Gonsalves PM of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Well I have listened to the tapes several times and I have been close enough and know Gonsalves well enough to honestly believe it…