The view from Europe: rethinking the relationship with Europe
BY: DAVID JESSOP From Barbados Advocate Today, October 1, the European Union’s sugar regime, which has for decades sustained the production of cane and raw sugar in the Caribbean, comes to an end. This is scarcely news. As a long-planned…
Letter to the Editor:
From Anthony M. Wright September 4, 2017 THE BAHAMIAN JUDICIARY HAS FINALLY RELEASED ONE OF MY CRIMINALLY CONCEALED FOR OVER NINE YEARS 4 PAGES COURT TRANSCRIPT FOR MY HEARING 12TH FEBRUARY 2009 BEFORE SENIOR JUSTICE JOHN LYONS RE: THE CRIMINALLY…
Hammock Camping Infographic Part 2
Tired of the same old camping routine? Or maybe you’ve started to see some flaws in your regular camping set up that might be solved by changing things up a little bit? Sounds like you might need to give hammock…
Trump’s truth is hell for some
By Daniel Bonevac From Newsmax Last week I ventured where few conservatives dare to tread — MSNBC. Washington Post fact-checkers had that very day proclaimed that they had documented 1,000 false or misleading statements from the mouth (or the Twitter…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Boycotted for a knighthood
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now Geoffrey Boycott is a BBC cricket commentator. He was an England cricketer for 24 years. Over that period, he scored 8,114 runs in 108 Test matches for England and was the first…
The ties that bind the US to Latin America and the Caribbean
By Evan Ellis From Newsmax Dear Colleague, I hope this article finds you well. I am happy to have the opportunity to connect with you through my new blog in the media outlet Newsmax. For those of you who do…
The west’s wealth is based on slavery. Reparations should be paid
By Kehinde Andrews From The Guardian UK The west is built on racism; and not in some abstract or merely historical way. Genocide of over 80% of the natives of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries paved the…
We’ve crossed the free speech Rubicon
BY LANCE ULANOFF From Mashable After decades of operating in the shadows of the web, online racists are now the focus of deserved intense anger and sudden action by the entities that once blithely hosted them. While there’s never been…
David Horowitz: Charlottesville biggest ‘Fake News,’ defends Trump
From Newsmax The tragedy in Charlottesville could have been an occasion to stop and consider how the tolerance for politically correct violence and politically correct hatred is leading the nation towards civil war. Instead the media and the political left…
Things that matter – opportunities lost or ‘taken at the flood’?
BY: SIR HENRY FRASER From Barbados Advocate Congratulations to David Comissiong for his thoughtful and highly relevant comments in The Barbados Advocate on Wednesday. He asks: “Will we use CARIFESTA to launch a powerful cultural and artistic campaign to regenerate…









