Disaster risks outweigh cover
By SHAWN CUMBERBATCH From Nation News Should Barbados and the region be more focused on disaster risk insurance? Whether you call them catastrophes or disasters, there are some events that are potentially crippling to countries, especially small nations like Barbados…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Exceptionailsm and failure: Lessons from Brexit
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Sir Ronald Sanders Blog The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost in a troubled British economy, however much British government ministers and other English nationalistic hopefuls are trying to suggest otherwise. It was a…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Outraged for black womanhood
By Sir Ronald Sanders From sirronaldsanders.com After a lifetime in Caribbean and international politics, I thought the time had long since passed when I could be outraged by any event. But I was outraged last week and I continue to…
Sir Ronald Sanders: The dignity of the Obamas
By Sir Ronald Sanders As Barack Obama’s Presidency of the United States of America enters its final weeks, there are tens of millions of people in America and across the world who already feel a great sense of loss. That…
Peter Binose: Blacks beg to be enslaved by ‘Massa’
By Peter Binose The chain gangs working on the road sides clearing the vegetation and debris standing out in the hot sun every December trying to get a crust for Christmas, something for their children. Chains you ask? What chains?…
Farewell to Ban Ki-moon
By Tony best From Nation News NOT LONG AFTER he became the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon headed to Barbados with his family. About seven years later, he was back in the country, attending the Caricom heads of government conference…
President Obama and the Caribbean.
Ewin James. Nearly eight years ago the Caribbean welcomed the election of President Obama more exuberantly than many other people did , for like most Caribbean people he is black; and he was going to lead the greatest country on…
Embargo bogeyman
By Ewin James From Caribbean News Now Some opponents of the United States and supporters of the Cuban people ascribe the suffering of Cubans to the trade embargo that the US imposed in 1962, for Cuba becoming communist and seizing…
Africa shows love for Castro and his legacy, but what has become of the revolution?
By LIESL LOUW-VAUDRAN From Mail & Guardian Africa The Caribbean’s ties with Africa remain strong, but some in the diaspora feel more attuned to Julius Malema than to the current leadership. The death of long-time Cuban ruler Fidel Castro prompted…
Trump right to worry about AT&T, Time Warner merger
By Michael Reagan From Newsmax On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary committee will hold a significant hearing on the proposed $84 billion merger between AT&T and Time Warner, which owns CNN. AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson will be testifying, as well as others,…






