Opinion: Slavery should have made Africa strong
By Michael A. Dingwall There is one thing about Africa and slavery that has perplexed me for a long time. Seeing that the Europeans were able to build great empires out of the slave trade, how is it that Africa…
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Cayman bomb hoaxer gets suspended sentence James Bernie Williams (53) was very lucky to get only a two year suspended sentence for carrying out a bomb hoax a week before Christmas at the Ritz Carlton and the Caribbean Club on…
WHO report finds traffic-related injuries deadliest for adolescents
By Ryan Parrish From Vaccine News A recent study conducted by the WHO examined the top causes of death and illness among adolescents worldwide. The “Health for the world’s adolescents” report, the first extensive WHO effort to measure the health…
Africa leaders declare ‘war’ on Nigeria Boko Haram
From BBC Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Francois Hollande warned of Boko Haram’s links to other terror organisations African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage “war” on Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic militants. President Hollande of France, who hosted the…
Barclays to shed 19,000 jobs over three years
By Sophia Yan From CNN Barclays announced another wave of job cuts Thursday, pushing the total over three years to 19,000 as it takes the knife to its investment bank. The investment bank division will shed as many as 7,000…
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013’ review: The Caribbean delivered with wit and colour
By John McAuliffe From Irish Times Walcott’s range went from Marley to Pryor and from Gauguin to Yeats In 1988 in Dún Laoghaire, Derek Walcott took part in a round-table discussion with Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney and Les Murray. By…
Despite African growth, tax dodging widens inequality-report
By Luke Balleny from Trust.org Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – High economic growth rates in a number of African countries mask widening inequality between a wealthy minority that is growing richer and the poor who, in…
Dr. Janice Emanuel-Bunn — educator, community advocate
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Educator, author, researcher, community advocate and TV and radio host Dr. Janice Emanuel-Bunn was born in Guyana and migrated to the United States in 1983 and settled in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Dr. Emanuel-Bunn…
A Christian-Muslim crisis of faith in Africa
From The Christian Science Monitor With Christians and Muslims killing each other in the Central African Republic, the country needs more than foreign troops. A group of interfaith religious leaders are banding together to make peace real. The last time…
Fair trade and slave free: the only chocolate for your Valentine
By Kristina Chew From Care2 Buying one of love’s emblematic tokens — chocolate — has gotten rather complicated and for good reason. Scratch the surface of how chocolate is produced and you’ll soon discover that a shocking amount of global…
