How Union Membership Leads to a Great Life
By David McCall Author Bio: David McCall is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Credit Line: This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute. Lance Jablonski worked a couple of jobs in his 20s that provided little more than low…
Caribbean Mass Shootings – The New Pandemic
By Peter Polack The last few years has witnessed an upsurge in mass shooting events across the Caribbean especially in the British Overseas Territories leaving police baffled and resources stretched or shared. The most recent mass killing took place at…
Make ‘Haitian-Led’ Mean Something
(MENAFN– Caribbean News Global) By Sir Ronald Sanders Sir Ronald Sanders The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, has proposed a Road Map for Haiti. It is ambitious, detailed, and promising if adequately owned by Haitians….
Boosting Trade in the World’s Least Developed Countries – The power of Technology
By Deodat Maharaj Gebze, Türkiye Artificial intelligence and the use of frontier technologies are already transforming tradeand boosting prosperity, particularly for developed, and some developing countries. Thisranges from digital exchange of documents, the digitalisation of trade processes andleveraging online platforms…
Opinion: Caribbean Constitutional Omissions – Return To Sender
By Peter Polack A significant part of the Caribbean community are the anachronistic relics of yesterday, the U.K. Colonies such as the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands and Monserrat. The gleaming jewel in the British Crown…
CAN CWI AND INDIVIDUAL WI CRICKETERS ACHIEVE MUTUAL SUCCESS? – Column by Basil Springer – August 15, 2025
Dr. Basil Springer “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.” – Romans 13:1 I sometimes engage in dialogue with…
Opinion: Caribbean Water Prices – Bridge Over Troubled Water
By Peter Polack Peter Polack An article from the Trinidad and Tobago media proclaimed that country as having the lowest electricity and water rates in the world. Yes you read that right. A small country part of the Caribbean grouping…
Opinion: Caribbean Electricity Companies – Killing Me Softly
By Peter Polack Among the many tortures that the citizens of the Caribbean have to endure during the summer, high electricity bills are the worst and least explained. One of the leaders of the pack in the highest power bills…
Opinion: Caribbean Tourists Dying Like Flies
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Last Friday an elderly American visitor to the Cayman Islands perished in yet another drowning in a country described by a local paper in 2023 as among the world’s worst drowning rate. In another local…
Opinion: Banality of greed in Jamaica’s governance
By Dennis Minott Dennis Minott In her seminal 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, political philosopher Hannah Arendt startled the world by painting a deeply unsettling portrait – not of a fanatic, nor a monster,…
