The View from Europe: Renewing the US relationship
By David Jessop A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship. The bill has no funding attached to it….
OUR CARIBBEAN: Divisive politics – questions for the PM
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News Barbados MORE THAN half a century after the English-speaking Caribbean started the process of dismantling age-old colonial relations with Britain, our politicians and parliamentary parties across this region continue to betray a slavish attachment for…
The View from Europe: Another blow for Venezuela
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now Last week in Doha, many of the world’s major producers of crude oil tried, but failed to agree to freeze production, in order to stabilise and eventually increase prices. It was an outcome…
The backlash to U.S.-Cuba normalization and the misuse of Human Rights
By Peter Bolton, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs In the bitter campaign to reverse the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations that has been driving forward since December 2014, human rights have again entered center stage. Critics of President…
Guyana should immediately rescind this embarrassing MOU with India
By Dennis Adonis From Caribbean News Now The Guyana government has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of India for the establishment of a US$1 million ICT Center of Excellence inside two classroom spaces at the NDMA…
Peter Binose: Ralph Gonsalves, ancestry and the establishment of slavery.
By Peter Binose In the year 1418 three Portuguese sea captains and navigators Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and João Gonçalves Zarco [John Gonsalves Zarco] sailing under the orders of the king of Portugal King John 1 were sailing the…
Cayman Islands lawyer and activist warns of “a looming financial crisis”
A looming financial crisis hidden from electorate 2017 and facing Cayman Islands’ Government after elections? By Peter Polack 1.The Cayman Islands Government has failed to include some $1.3 billion of liabilities for post-retirement healthcare benefits and pension liabilities for…
Is it cricket or is it the Caribbean? Sammy vs WICB
By Wilson Jn. Baptiste From St Lucia News Online West-Indies-cricket-1The current controversy between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies players, headed by their T-20 captain, Darren Sammy, may very well be the tip of the iceberg of…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Fighting crime as a region
By Rickey Singh From Nationnews Barbados LAST WEEK the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, had the painful task of informing that nation that crime had reached a “crisis level”. It is the kind of information, or news,…
Peter Binose: One of their very special supporters is dying whilst they sit back and watch
Remember the driver of the car that mowed down and killed Edgar Cruikshank at an NDP rally at Clare Valley? The driver of that car [full name withheld for sake of living family] was charged with five road traffic offences,…