Belize Letter: BPP demands transparency concerning $8 million contract
Dear Sir: It is the opinion of the Belize Progressive Party (BPP) that the greatest evil that has emanated from the unadulterated greed of the PUDP system is the deprivation of our children’s right to an education. It is the…
Why Caribbean nations should tap nationals as tourism influencers
By Nerissa Golden From Caribbean News Now The Caribbean has spent hundreds of millions of dollars advertising their tourism product in the international markets. Yes, there is a sense of pride when you turn on CNN and see images of…
Stop using America’s children as pawns!
By Albert Baldeo From Caribbean Life “I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don’t know why he chose to write it, but I’m glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live…
The Caribbean and SIDS should never borrow or even entertain any talk of IMF loans
By Timil Didier Nkoli From NAM News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Oct. 13, 2017: It is with great insight and understanding I pen this article as a clarion call for Caribbean governments and Small Island Developing States to avoid…
Kate Osamor [The Voice] Exclusive: ‘UK should not abandon the Caribbean’
by Kate Osamor UK MP From The Voice UK The Shadow Secretary of State for International Development shares her thoughts on the hurricane aftermath for ‘Voice’ readers OVER A month has passed since the hurricanes struck the Caribbean. Dominica, where…
Unmasking Columbus!
By Earl Bousquet From Caribbean News Now The path opened by Columbus to the ‘The Americas’ led to territories being conquered and claimed, stolen and shared by the Europeans and left a long history of native genocide and slavery and…
SPLC: Pirates, Poverty and Wealth in the Caribbean
By Tony Perkins from The Patriot Post The Southern Poverty Law Center likes to boast about its mission to “destroy” the groups it labels as “hate groups” — groups that now include mainstream conservative and Judeo-Christian organizations. But thankfully it…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Insuring the Caribbean’s future
By Sir Ronald Sanders Insurers and re-insurers are facing major losses in the wake of the damage done in the Caribbean and the United States by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. These losses will have a direct and immediate impact…
The view from Europe: Puerto Rico – an island apart
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now On October 2, two of the world’s leading humanitarian relief agencies, Oxfam and Save the Children, felt it necessary to speak out about the inadequate US federal response to the emerging disaster in…
Puerto Rico needs federal relief and financial support, not lectures from ‘king of debt’ Trump
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa From Business Insider President Donald Trump’s visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday showed a deep disconnect between his vision of the federal disaster response to the territory’s devastation after Hurricane Maria and the reality being…






