History is repeating itself and America may not survive
By Richard Lawless From Caribbean News Now In 2006 a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude hit America. Wall Street, with at least complicit support from our legislators, the DOJ and regulatory agencies began to create new financial instruments to sell…
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Has politics become delinquent?
By Oliver Mills From Caribbean News Now Caribbean systems of governance have been undergoing serious critique because of their perceived dysfunctionality in delivering economic and social goods, and protecting the lives and property of citizens who are at the core…
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Guyana: The Caribbean laughs at us; we are primitive
By Freddie Kissoon From Kaieteur News It is not that we do not know we are primitive. We know it but we aren’t doing anything about it, and there is no effort about doing anything about it. You talk to any…
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Derisking threatens Caribbean banking sector and trade
By Allan Wright From The Huffington Post Allan Wright is country economist for The Bahamas at the Inter-American Development Bank, and an associate researcher for the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance. He formerly was a senior economist for the…
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Economic incentives vital for development of the Guiana Shield
By Dr Odeen Ishmael From Caribbean News Now The fourth international congress on the biodiversity of the Guiana Shield, sponsored by the International Biodiversity Society of the Guiana Shield (IBG) in conjunction with the Guyana government, was held during August 8-12…
Peter Binose: Time to kill Douglas De Freitas and Nice Radio off for good
By Peter Binose For years now they have tried their hardest to destroy Douglas De Freitas and Nice Radio. They have regarded him as a political thorn in their side for years. They have despised his free speech and exposé’s…
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The View from Europe: Rebalancing the Chinese economic relationship
BY: DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate Last month the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published a paper ‘Chinese rise in the Caribbean – What does it mean for Caribbean Stakeholders?’ Although, in its conclusions, it said little more than a number…
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Peter Binose: Time to stop Visitors from Venezuela from entering the Caribbean without a treatment certificate
By Peter Binose In 2001 Venezuela was so affected by dengue that it trickled down through the Caribbean and the Americas which reached a crescendo by 2014. Almost every citizen throughout the Caribbean suffered from the disease it proved unstoppable. Dengue…
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Sir Ronald Sanders: Where has fight in developing countries gone?
By Sir Ronald Sanders The ease with which developed countries appoint heads of international and multi-national organisations (sometimes in the guise of an election) is not their achievement alone; it is also the fault of developing countries that let them….
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Sir Ronald Sanders: IMF double standards
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Barbados Today The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has tormented small Caribbean economies for five decades with austerity measures and fierce conditionalities, has been exposed as adopting utterly different standards towards Europe, especially the countries…
