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,…
TALKBACK: Readers not for legalising prostitution
By SHERRYLYN TOPPIN, From Nation News Barbados A suggestion by a visiting academic to decriminalise prostitution has drawn the ire of online readers. Professor Kamala Kempadoo of York University, Canada, made the recommendation while delivering this year’s Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture…
GET REAL: Genius strike by Sammy
By ADRIAN GREEN From Nation News Barbados West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy did not speak very loudly with his bat in the recently concluded tournament. But he played a master shot during the interview that followed the finals. It was…
Letter to the Financial Times From Anthony Travers Chairman, Cayman Islands Stock Exchange
Letter to the Financial Times 7th April 2016. Sir, Much as Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader, may secretly admire Lord Palmerston, sending a gunboat to the Cayman Islands is constitutionally impermissible (“Cameron accused of backing down on tax havens”,…
Deficit of hope
By D. Markie Spring From Caribbean News Now Despite its many challenges, the Earth is a perfect place! The number one reason for such claim is, the Earth was created by the perfect Being – God, the omnificent, the One…





