The Hidden Crisis: How America Fails to Protect Its Children
From child labor to trafficking—and even foster care, sports, and detention—institutions meant to protect children often cause the greatest harm.
Polack Post: Caribbean Self Interest Not Common Sense
By Peter Polack Peter Polack I know a landlord who had a sexual relationship with his tenant which unsurprisingly did not end well. This is the usual conclusion for persons who confuse self interest with common sense. Hotel or business…
Humans Face Pareidolic Experiences to Our Advantage
We are wired to find faces everywhere, and this instinct reveals how our perception and our environment can influence each other.
Polack Post: Caribbean Travel Ban – Some More Equal Than Others
Peter Polack It was recently announced by the United States administration that they have imposed travel bans against citizens of countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria. They have also imposed restrictions on several more African countries…
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 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…
Polack Post: Caribbean Private Sector – Government Loans
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The Jamaican government has recently announced a loan of US$150 million to the local electricity provider to ensure quicker reconnection for all customers other than the projected 2026 date. This was because the government intends…
Polack Post: Caribbean – Kill Them All
By Peter Polack Peter Polack A recent French media article has implicated the Haitian equivalent of a public prosecutor in the deaths of 28 persons in a gang free part of Haiti. This could bring one of the most violent…
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…
Polack Post: Caribbean Telecoms – Incompetent Government Lawyers
By Peter Polack Peter Polack The poultry is coming home to roost in the Cayman Islands, not only with the recent avian flu infection, but the selection of the least able legal leaders not only to sort through that government’s…
