Celebrity choreographer celebrates Caribbean roots with afro soca
By MELISSA NOEL From NBC News Celebrity choreographer and dancer, Shakira Marshall has taken her talents from the dance studios of Brooklyn all the way to Broadway. The Queens, New York native has been making waves on the international stage…
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What’s Emancipation Day to the Caribbean working-class?
By Ajamu Nangwaya/teleSUR From Carib Flame While it is great to commemorate Emancipation Day, this day must also be used to reflect, critique, assess, deliberate and plan for the next year of struggle. On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in the…
What’s Emancipation Day to the Caribbean working-class?
By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya From telesur While it is great to commemorate Emancipation Day, this day must also be used to reflect, critique, assess, deliberate and plan for the next year of struggle. On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in…
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The View from Europe: The urgency of now
By David Jessop From The Barbados Advocate There is no shortage of astute advice, or practical thinking about the region’s future. In the last two weeks alone, speeches from significant regional figures have again made clear what practically is required…
PNP wins additional seat following official recount of ballots
From Antigua Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. 28, CMC – The People’s National Party (PNP) has secured another seat in the aftermath of the just concluded general election. Late Saturday, Director of Elections, Orrette Fisher said the party’s candidate in the…
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The View from Europe: Improving the Dominican Republic-CARICOM relationship
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now Mutual incomprehension perhaps best sums up the way in which the Anglophone Caribbean and the Dominican Republic presently regard one another. Although in recent months the focus has been on the complex concerns…
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The new European Commission and the Caribbean
David Jessop THE view from EUROPE From Jamaica Gleaner On September 10, the incoming president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Junker, named seven vice presidents and 20 commissioners who will jointly control the European Commission for the next five years,…
The View from Europe: [no desire for autobiographies]
By David Jessop August 22nd, 2014 From Dominican Today As far as I can determine, few if any of the current group of Caribbean Prime Ministers, or opposition leaders keeps a diary recording events and conversations of importance. Moreover, on…
Talking Caribbean—the rhetoric of Mas
By Simon Lee from Guardian Media Tropic Tendencies—Rhetoric, Popular Culture and the Anglophone Caribbean, a recent publication by Trinidadian assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at New York’s Syracuse University, Dr Kevin Browne, is a welcome and important addition to…
