Fidel Castro tells his country goodbye
By Caribbean News Service From St Lucia online Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech on Tuesday to the Communist Party he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he would soon die and exhorting them…
Sportsmax to broadcast Trinidad & Tobago Secondary School athletics
Live broadcast to North America via CEEN TV Thursday, 21st April 2016-: SportsMax, the Caribbean’s premier sports broadcaster, announced today that it has signed a five-year exclusive broadcast rights agreement with the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary School Track and Field…
Could ‘actual innocence’ save the broken US justice system?
By Jessica Lussenhop From BBC News Magazine In St Clair County, Illinois, the local prosecutor is trying a radical new experiment: admitting his office has charged innocent people with crimes and clearing their names before they spend a day in prison….
Cartoon of the week
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
Mich. Republicans spark Virgin Islands delegate fight
By Chad Livengood, From Detroit News Lansing Bureau A Michigan political feud has boiled over in the Caribbean islands, where state operatives are enmeshed in a battle for Republican delegates who may decide the party’s presidential nominee. The imbroglio in…
‘Barbados’ political operating system needs upgrading’
From The Barbados Advocate A Roman Catholic Bishop is of the view that today, Barbados and the Caribbean face similar threats and challenges to those faced in the 1930’s – marginalization of the poor, the worker and the middle class…
News analysis: FIFA blasts the Caribbean Mockingbird with its heavy artillery
By James Dostoyevksy From Inside World Football April 21 – Double jeopardy, denial of the most basic due process and defamation of character seems to be the latest modus operandi of a FIFA compliance outfit that makes statements about the…
Demolishing srereotypes
Clark University’s Caribbean and African students demolish stereotypes By Kaiomi Inniss From Odyssey All Africans are whaaat? Stereotypes; they are everywhere. Usually perpetuated by the mass media, stereotypes usually become labels for certain cultures, races, ethnicities and/or religions. Caribbean and…
Shakespeare 400
Shakespeare 400: festivals, plays and attractions around England By Rachel Dixon From The Guardian UK Cultural events and new openings to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death will be in full swing across the country this weekend –…
Canada to push for making sale marijuana legal
From BBC The Canadian government will introduce legislation next year that would make the sale of marijuana legal, its health minister has said. If enacted, the move would make Canada one of the largest Western countries to allow widespread use…