Russia: The Great Whitewash
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Long before the first Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 there was an earlier conflict harbinger in the electoral ambitions of Alexei Navalny, presently in his winter residence or Penal Colony No.2 at Pokrov. A…
Cayman Islands Governor Martyn Roper of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office silent on allegations against former Grenada DPP Langston Sibblies
By Peter Polack Peter Polack Former Cayman Islands governor Martyn Roper, a Foreign, Commonwealth and Development officer, has failed to respond to allegations against retired Cayman Islands Monetary Authority official Langston Sibblies. Sibblies was recommended and given a Queen’s honour through Roper…
Jamaican soldiers dying abroad: Raising the limit of military enlistment
Jamaica has usually been conjoined in the media with beaches, reggae and rum but there is a darker side, not reparation for slavery, but the iniquity dub plate. Sons of this tropical paradise, dying in foreign places unknown to most…
A sea of tears
By Peter Polack A French knight of the Crusades, Geoffrey de Bouillon, was immortalised by the 16th century Italian poet Torquato Tasso in his epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata or Jerusalem Liberated, thus: for every drop of blood, a sea of tears….
Lavrov and the obsolescence of society
By Peter Polack When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he and Russia, discarded centuries of science, culture and diplomatic engagement not to mention common sense. The comity among countries carefully nurtured in the post-World War 2 period has been rendered meaningless…
Russia: The most dangerous words
By Peter Polack An early sign of the Ukraine conflict unfolding into generational warfare can be discerned from the recent video of a boy soldier, armed with a machine gun, performing roadside security checks in the Donbas. The innocence lost…
Russian Fires: Is arson the new IED?
By Peter Polack The imperialist ambitions of Russia under the cover of state media and restricted information have been beset by the exposure of a string of seemingly unconnected fires. A state defence research facility, major chemical factory, fuel depots,…
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Jamaica rugby chief happy as men and women keep Olympic hopes alive
By Michael Hudson From Planet 7s Jamaica men’s and women’s sevens teams finished runners-up at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens tournament in the Cayman Islands, thereby advancing to the final Olympic qualification repechage event. The chairman of the country’s…
The UWI has no agreement with the University of Glasgow for reparation payments
From Jamaica Gleaner The following statement is issued by the vice-chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles. The headline of the story originally published in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper dated November 25, 2018,…
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Caribbean to fight for IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C temperature rise
From CARICOM (Jamaica Gleaner) CARIBBEAN ISLANDS are prepared to fight for the acceptance of the final draft of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius. The document will come up for…
